Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
	75th anniversary logo used in 2021
Parent company	Macmillan Publishers
Founded	1946; 78 years ago
Founder	John C. Farrar; Roger W. Straus Jr.; Robert Giroux (joined 1955);
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Equitable Building; New York City, New York
Distribution	Macmillan (US); Melia Publishing Services (UK);
Key people	Mitzi Angel (President); Jonathan Galassi (Chairman and Executive Editor);
Imprints	MCD, FSG Originals
Official website	www.fsgbooks.com

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. As of 2016^[update] the publisher is a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.^[4]

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Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945^[5] by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.^[3]^[6] The first book was Yank: The G.I. Story of the War, a compilation of articles that appeared in Yank, the Army Weekly, then There Were Two Pirates, a novel by James Branch Cabell.

The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for a while.^[3] In the early years, Straus and his wife Dorothea, went prospecting for books in Italy. It was there that they found the memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi and other rising Italian authors: Alberto Moravia, Giovannino Guareschi and Cesare Pavese.^[3] Farrar, Straus also poached or lured away authors from other publishers—one was Edmund Wilson, who was unhappy with Random House at the time but remained with Farrar, Straus for the remainder of his career.^[3]

In 1950, the name changed to Farrar, Straus & Young (for Stanley Young, a playwright, author (at Farrar & Rinehart^[7]), a literary critic for The New York Times, and an original stockholder and board member).^[8]^[9]^[10]

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In 1953, Pellegrini & Cudahy merged with Farrar, Straus & Young.^[11]

Robert Giroux joined the company in 1955, and after he later became a partner, the name was changed to Farrar, Straus and Giroux.^[3] Giroux had been working for Harcourt and had been angered when Harcourt refused to allow him to publish Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.^[3] Giroux brought many literary authors with him including Thomas Merton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Peter Taylor, Randall Jarrell, T.S. Eliot, and Bernard Malamud.^[3] Alan Williams described Giroux's "Pied Piper sweep" as "almost certainly the greatest number of authors to follow, on their own initiative, a single editor from house to house in the history of modern publishing."^[3] In 1964, Straus named Giroux chairman of the board and officially added Giroux's name to the publishing company.^[3]

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Straus continued to run the company for twenty years after his partner Farrar died, until 1993 when he sold a majority interest of the company to the privately owned German publishing conglomerate Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.^[3]^[12]^[13] Straus offered FSG to the Holtzbrinck family because of their reputation for publishing serious works of literature.^[3]

Jonathan Galassi served as both president and publisher until 2018.^[14] Andrew Mandel joined in 2004 as deputy publisher. Eric Chinski is editor-in-chief. In 2008, Mitzi Angel came from Fourth Estate in the UK to be publisher of the Faber and Faber Inc. imprint. In 2018, Angel succeeded Galassi as publisher, and was named president in 2021.^[15] Other notable editors include Sean McDonald, Daphne Durham, and Alex Star.

In February 2015 FSG and Faber and Faber announced the end of their partnership. All books scheduled for release and previously released under the imprint will be moved to the FSG colophon by August 2016.^[16]

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Farrar, Straus, and Company (1945–1951)^[17]
Farrar, Straus and Young (1950–1956)^[18]^[19]
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1953–1963)^[20]^[21] – acquired L.C. Page & Co. in 1957^[22]^[23]^[24]
Farrar, Straus, and Company (1963–1964)^[25] after Cudahy left the firm.^[14]
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1964–present)^[26]

MCD/FSG, which is viewed as a kind of a lab to experiment with new styles and genres. The imprint is headed by Sean McDonald, who is joined by Daphne Durham, formerly editor-in-chief and publisher of Amazon Publishing, as executive director.^[27]^[28]
FSG Originals
Hill and Wang^[29]^[30] publishes books of academic interest and specializes in history. Its authors include Roland Barthes, William Cronon, Langston Hughes, and Elie Wiesel.
North Point Press published literary nonfiction with an emphasis on natural history, travel, ecology, music, food, and cultural criticism. Its authors include Peter Matthiessen, Beryl Markham, Guy Davenport, A. J. Liebling, Margaret Visser, Wendell Berry, and M. F. K. Fisher.

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Sarah Crichton Books publishes books with a slightly commercial bent. The imprint launched with Cathleen Falsani's The God Factor in 2006. Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was a bestseller and a Starbucks-featured book in 2007.^[31]^[32]
Faber and Faber Inc. published a backlist of drama and books on the arts, entertainment, music, pop culture, cultural criticism, and the media. Its authors included David Auburn, Margaret Edson, Doug Wright, Richard Greenberg, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Neil LaBute, Peter Conrad, Martin Eisenstadt and Courtney Love.
Scientific American / FSG,^[33] led by Amanda Moon, publishes non-fiction popular science books for the general reader. Its authors include Jesse Bering, Daniel Chamovitz, Kevin Dutton, and Caleb Scharf.
Noonday Press^[25]
Melanie Kroupa Books (children's book imprint, 2000–2008)^[34]^[35]
FSG Originals x Logic, a short-lived imprint for technology books that published Blockchain Chicken Farm.^[36]

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FSG Books for Young Readers publishes National Book Award winners Madeleine L'Engle (1980), William Steig (1983), Louis Sachar (1998), and Polly Horvath (2003). Books for Young Readers also publishes Natalie Babbitt, Roald Dahl, Jack Gantos, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, Ozge Samanci, and Peter Sis.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize

John Berryman (1965)
Bernard Malamud (1967)
Jean Stafford (1970)
Robert Lowell (1974)
Paul Horgan (1976)
Lanford Wilson (1980)
James Schuyler (1981)
Charles Fuller (1982)
Marsha Norman (1983)
Thomas L. Friedman (1983, 1988, 2002)
Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
Charles Wright (1998)
Michael Cunningham (1999)
John McPhee (1999)
Margaret Edson (1999)
C. K. Williams (2000)
David Auburn (2001)
Louis Menand (2002)
Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
Paul Muldoon (2003)
Doug Wright (2004)
Marilynne Robinson (2005)
Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015)
Frank Bidart (2017)
James Forman Jr. (2018)
Anne Boyer (2020)

Winners of the National Book Award

Jack Kerouac's then-girlfriend Joyce Johnson, started work in 1957, when Sheila Cudahy was a partner at the firm.^[40]

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Norman Angell, After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951; rpt. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952).
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Elie Wiesel, Night (Hill & Wang, 1958; rpt. 2006).
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Nelson Mandela, Dare Not Linger (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017).
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Official website
Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Twitter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
Work in Progress, an Online Magazine by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer Papers Archived February 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
"Guide to the Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Records" (PDF). Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.

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"Angel appointed president at Farrar, Straus & Giroux". Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.

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Silverman, Al (2008). The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors. Truman Talley. ISBN 978-0312-35003-1.

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Landler, Mark (October 14, 2002). "Another German Publisher Mulls Its Wartime Past". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022. The Von Holtzbrinck Group, the conglomerate that owns Farrar Straus and Giroux and other gilded names in American publishing, has disclosed that it has hired a writer to research the company's history from 1933 to 1945.

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