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Genesis West	A total of seven issues and a poetry supplement of this short-lived literary magazine was published in Burlingame, California by the Chrysalis West Foundation between 1962 and 1965 under the editorship of Gordon Lish. A collection of correspondence and manuscripts sent to the magazine is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
George Routledge & Sons	George Routledge began publishing in 1836 and founded his publishing company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. After briefly being known as Routledge, Warne & Routledge, it became George Routledge & Sons in 1865. In 1912 George Routledge & Sons merged with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006
George W. Jacobs Company	The George W. Jacobs Company was established in Philadelphia in 1892. In 1925 the publishing operation of the Jacobs Company was purchased by Durant L. Macrae and Allan M. Smith and renamed as Macrae Smith Company. See the FOB entry for Macrae Smith Company and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 216.	2013
George Webb Bookbinders	The firm of George Webb Bookbinders (including its wholly owned subsidiary Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd) was sold to Marshall, Morgan and Scott in 1973. Marshall, Morgan and Scott merged with Pickering & Inglis in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Greenberg Publisher	The firm of Greenberg Publisher was founded in New York in 1924 by Jacob W. Greenberg. In 1958 the firm was acquired by Chilton Publishing Company. See the FOB entry for Chilton Publishing Company, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 164.	2008
Greenwillow Books	Greenwillow Books was founded in 1974 as an autonomous children's book division of William Morrow & Company. The founding editor was Susan Hirschman. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. Greenwillow continues to be used as an imprint by HarperCollins.	2008
Grove Weidenfeld	Grove Press was founded in New York in 1951 by Barney J. Rosset Jr. In 1985 the firm was acquired by Ann Getty and George Weidenfield and became known first as Grove Weidenfeld and then as Grove Nicolson. In 1993 the firm was merged with Atlantic Monthly Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com.	2008
Hamming-Whitman Company	Hamming-Whitman Company was a publishing firm based in Chicago. In 1916 the firm defaulted on its bills and was taken over by its principal creditor Western Printing and Lithographing Company (later Western Publishing Company). Western moved the firm to its own headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, and renamed it Whitman Publishing Company. By the 1980s the name Whitman was no longer being used for publishing, but continued for games and puzzles until Western went out of business. See the FOB entry for Western Publishing Company, which indicates that it is now part of the Golden Books division of Random House; www.randomhouse.com/golden; and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 383. There is no connection with the firm of Albert Whitman & Co. of Niles, Illinois (founded 1919; www.awhitmanco.com), although Albert Whitman had been one of the founders of Hamming-Whitman.	2008
Heinemann Educational Books Ltd	Heinemann Educational Books Ltd (HEB) was created in 1961 from the educational department of William Heinemann Ltd, and established as a separate company with many overseas offices. See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd for the sales of the company during the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike William Heinemann Ltd, however, Heinemann Educational remained part of the Reed Elsevier group, as an imprint of Harcourt Education International. Harcourt Education International (including the African Writers Series) was sold by Reed Elsevier in 2007 to Pearson. See www.pearson.com and www.heinemann.co.uk.	2008
Heyne Verlag	Wilhelm Heyne founded the Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in Dresden in 1934. In 2000 Heyne Verlag was sold to the Axel Springer group, who created a book division called Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and Heyne was sold to Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.de/heyne and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008

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