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In 1982, Putnam acquired the respected children's book publisher, Grosset & Dunlap from Filmways. [1] The same year, Putnam acquired the book publishing division of Playboy Enterprises, which included Seaview Books. [9] [10] The ownership of Putnam changed a number of times in the 1990s. MCA was bought by Matsushita Electric in 1990. [11]
Pages in category "G. P. Putnam's Sons books" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 311 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City-based publishing house founded in 1898.. The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 [1] and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group.
George Palmer Putnam was born in Rye, New York on September 7, 1887, the son of John Bishop Putnam and the grandson of his namesake, George Palmer Putnam, founder of the prominent publishing firm that became G. P. Putnam's Sons. He studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
(brothers) John Bishop Putnam, Irving Putnam, Herbert Putnam George Haven Putnam A.M., Litt.D. (April 2, 1844 – February 27, 1930) was an American publisher, soldier, and writer. He was the president of G. P. Putnam's Sons for its first 52 years, from 1872.
Trees are unloaded by a crane at Buckeye’s Foley plant in Taylor County in 2012. The Foley Cellulose mill in Perry, Florida, announced on Sept. 18, 2023, that Georgia-Pacific plans to ...
Putnam married Victorine Haven; their marriage produced seven sons and four daughters. Their daughter, Mary Corinna Putnam (1842–1906), was a pioneering female doctor, the first woman admitted to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. One of their sons, Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), became a noted librarian who served as the Librarian of ...
George Herbert Putnam was born in New York City at 107 East Seventeenth Street, [4] the sixth son and tenth child of Victorine and George Palmer Putnam.The father, one-time collector of internal revenue in New York by appointment of Abraham Lincoln, was the founder of a well-known publishing house, [5] known previously as the Putnam Publishing house, but now known as G. P. Putnam's Sons.