Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People was an illustrated American literary periodical published from 1870 until 1881. Following a change in ownership in 1881 of the company that had produced it, the magazine was relaunched as The Century Magazine .
15-429: Charles Scribner is the name of several members of a New York publishing family associated with Charles Scribner's Sons : Charles Scribner I (1821–1871) Charles Scribner II (1854–1930) Charles Scribner III (1890–1952) Charles Scribner IV (1921–1995) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
30-414: A more extensive list, see List of Simon & Schuster authors. The Scribner Bookstores are now owned by Barnes & Noble . Scribner%27s Monthly Charles Scribner I , Andrew Armstrong , Arthur Peabody , Edward Seymour, Josiah Gilbert Holland , and Roswell Smith established Scribner & Co. on July 19, 1870, to start on the publication of Scribner's Monthly . Scribner's Monthly absorbed
45-410: A new firm, Scribner and Company, to publish a magazine entitled Scribner's Monthly . After the death of Charles Scribner I in 1871, his son John Blair Scribner took over as president of the company. His other sons Charles Scribner II and Arthur Hawley Scribner would also join the firm in 1875 and 1884. They each later served as presidents. When the other partners in the venture sold their stake to
60-548: A period. In 1886, at the expiration of this term, they launched Scribner's Magazine . The firm's headquarters were in the Scribner Building , built in 1893, on lower Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, and later in the Charles Scribner's Sons Building , on Fifth Avenue in midtown. Both buildings were designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style. The children's book division was established in 1934 under
75-689: A year later. Thomson Corporation placed the acquired MLR divisions into Gale. Thomson Learning including Gale became Cengage Group in 2007, Simon & Schuster licensed the Scribner trademarks for trade publishing from Gale. Simon & Schuster reorganized their adult imprints into four divisions in 2012. Scribner became the Scribner Publishing Group and would expand to include Touchstone Books, which had previously been part of Free Press. The other divisions are Atria Publishing Group , Simon & Schuster Publishing Group, and
90-604: Is an American publisher based in New York City that has published several notable American authors, including Henry James , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Kurt Vonnegut , Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , Stephen King , Robert A. Heinlein , Thomas Wolfe , George Santayana , John Clellon Holmes , Don DeLillo , and Edith Wharton . The firm published Scribner's Magazine for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes , National Book Awards and other merits. In 1978,
105-590: The Gallery Publishing Group . Susan Moldow would lead the new Scribner division as president. As of 2023 , the reference division and the trademarks are owned by Cengage Group and the trade division is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts . Simon & Schuster has published thousands of books from thousands of authors. This list represents some of the more notable authors (those who are culturally significant or have had several bestsellers) from Scribner since becoming part of Simon & Schuster. For
120-512: The company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. It merged into Macmillan in 1984. Simon & Schuster bought Macmillan in 1994. By this point, only the trade book and reference book operations still bore the original family name. After the merger, the Macmillan and Atheneum adult lists were merged into Scribner's, and the Scribner's children list was merged into Atheneum. The trade division, now simply "Scribner",
135-517: The family, the company was renamed Charles Scribner's Sons. The company launched St. Nicholas Magazine in 1873 with Mary Mapes Dodge as editor and Frank R. Stockton as assistant editor; it became well known as a children's magazine. When the Scribner family sold the magazine company to outside investors in 1881, Scribner's Monthly was renamed the Century Magazine . The Scribner brothers were enjoined from publishing any magazine for
150-576: The leadership of Alice Dalgliesh . It published works by distinguished authors and illustrators including N.C. Wyeth , Robert A. Heinlein , Marcia Brown , Will James , Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , and Leo Politi . Scribner merged with Atheneum in 1978 and into Macmillan Inc. in 1984. In 1994, Macmillan was bought by Simon & Schuster . The reference division along with Charles Scribner's Sons and Scribner trademarks were sold as part of Simon & Schuster's Macmillan Library Reference (MLR) to Pearson in 1998, Pearson resold MLR to Thomson Corporation
165-477: The position of publisher from 1994 to 2012), and the current publisher is Nan Graham. The firm was founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner I and Isaac D. Baker as "Baker & Scribner." After Baker's death, Scribner bought the remainder of the company and renamed it the "Charles Scribner Company." In 1865, the company first ventured into magazine publishing with Hours at Home . In 1870, the Scribners organized
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#1732775628990180-537: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Scribner&oldid=995936095 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles Scribner%27s Sons Charles Scribner's Sons , or simply Scribner's or Scribner ,
195-455: The second incarnation of Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art . The first issue of the newly formed periodical was published in November of that year. In April 1881, Charles Scribner II sold his share of the Scribner & Co. company to Roswell Smith. The names of the magazine and the company were retooled, dropping mention of 'Scribner'; Scribner's Monthly
210-404: Was changed to The Century Magazine and Scribner & Co. was changed to Century Company . Charles Scribner II was unable to launch a competing magazine for five years. In 1886, Scribner announced to a Times reporter that they would make a new monthly publication "as soon as the necessary arrangements could be perfected". Scribner also announced that the editor would be Edward Burlingame,
225-494: Was retained by Simon & Schuster, while the reference division and the trademarks have been owned by Gale since 1999 and Simon & Schuster licensed the Scribner trademark for trade publishing from Gale. As of 2012 , Scribner is a division of Simon & Schuster under the title Scribner Publishing Group, including the Touchstone Books imprint. The president of Scribner as of 2017 is Susan Moldow (who also held
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