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Books originally published by Harcourt, including World Book Company; Harcourt, Brace & Howe; Harcourt, Brace & Company; Harcourt, Brace & World; and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Harcourt (/ ˈ h ɑːr k ɔːr t /) was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. It was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co. and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. From 1919 to 1982, it was based in New York City. [1]
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a volume of her previously published collections of fiction and four uncollected works of short fiction. [1]Published in 1965 by Harcourt, Brace & World, the volume includes 26 works of fiction—all the stories that Porter "ever finished and published" in her lifetime. [2]
In book design, the author page is a section of a book or other literary work that consists of a short—usually a single page long—biography of the author, sometimes accompanied by a photograph of them. Written in the third-person narrative, this page is usually entitled "about the author", resulting in the synonymous name "about the author ...
First edition (publ. Harcourt Brace) Illustrated by Don Freeman. My Name is Aram is a 1940 short story collection by American author William Saroyan. The stories detail the exploits of Aram Garoghlanian, a boy of Armenian descent growing up in Fresno, California, and the various members of his large family. This book is assigned reading in some ...
Last revised in 1981, the series was still in print at the time of Warriner's death in 1987. Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich described it as "one of the best selling series in textbook publishing history", with over 30 million copies sold. [2] Books of the series have been published in large-print, Braille, audiobook, and e-book editions. [3]
Mariner Books, originally an imprint of HMH Books, [1] was established in 1997 as a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry in trade paperback. Mariner is also the publisher of the Harvest backlist, formerly published by Harcourt Brace/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. [2] HarperCollins bought HMH in May 2021 for US$349 million. [3]
Joanna Harcourt-Smith (13 January 1946 – 11 October 2020) was a British-born author, poet, and psychedelic activist from an aristocratic background. She was the granddaughter of Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith and the stepdaughter of financier Árpád Plesch .