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Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing 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 ...
Charles Scribner, Jr. was the son of Charles Scribner III and the longtime head of the Charles Scribner's Sons book publishing company. He succeeded his father in 1952 as chief of the family publishing house, which had been founded by his great-grandfather in 1846.
Scribner family, family of American publishers whose firm, founded in 1846 and named Charles Scribner’s Sons from 1878, issued books and several periodicals. Charles Scribner (b. Feb. 21, 1821, New York, N.Y.—d. Aug. 26, 1871, Lucerne, Switz.) established the firm in partnership with Isaac D. Baker.
Perkins graduated from Harvard University in 1907. From 1907 to 1910 he worked as a reporter for the New York Times. He then went to work in the advertising department of Charles Scribner’s Sons, a conservative publishing house with a rather staid list of authors.
In short succession, Charles Scribner’s Sons published Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Famed editors Maxwell Perkins and John Hall Wheelock realized that a new era in American literature was dawning, and in 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise , proclaimed the Jazz Age.
Ernest Hemingway was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1926. He continued the relationship with Scribners for more than 35 years — under the guidance of three Charles Scribners--the last was Charles Scribner, Jr. [above].
Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons. Repository: Manuscripts Division. Permanent URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9c67wm86s. Dates: 1786-2004 (mostly 1880-1979) Size: 1492 boxes, 66 items, 151 Volumes, and 750 linear feet.
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Charles Scribner's Sons: An Illustrated Chronology. This chronology provides a selected list of important dates and events in the history of the firm, noting partnerships, organizational changes, and changes in location.
Charles Scribner I (February 21, 1821 – August 26, 1871) [1] was an American publisher who, with Isaac D. Baker (1819–1850), [2] founded a publishing company that would eventually become Charles Scribner's Sons.
