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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. [3] FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes.
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Oct 27, 2021 · For those in our international readership unfamiliar with it, FSG is one of the United States’ more iconic houses, founded in 1945 as Farrar, Straus and Company, and merged in 1953 with Pellegrini & Cudahy. Two years later, Robert Giroux would join Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux was owned by about 35 shareholders, none owning more than 10 percent, save for Straus, who owned 62 percent. As a result of the firm's high-profile authors and small size, corporations frequently tried to buy it.
Mar 8, 2018 · Since its founding in 1946 by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar, FSG has held onto its perch as one of the country’s top literary publishing houses, a home for groundbreaking fiction,...
- Alexandra Alter
Oct 25, 2021 · Mitzi Angel, the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux — who as an editor signed Sally Rooney and Garth Greenwell — will add the title of president to her role at the storied literary...
- Elizabeth A. Harris
Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and twenty-one Nobel Prizes in Literature.
In 1971, Farrar, Straus & Giroux acquired H & W, making the company a division of FSG in the process. That same year, Hill left to form his own publishing company, Lawrence Hill & Company. Wang became editor-in-chief of the H & W division and a stockholder, vice-president and member of the board of directors of FSG until he retired in 1998.
