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Upon Melville Minton's death, his son Walter J. Minton took control of the company. Publisher's imprint. In 1965, G. P. Putnam's Sons acquired Berkley Books, a mass market paperback publishing house. MCA bought Putnam Publishing Group and Berkley Publishing Group in 1975. [7]
In the acknowledgements before beginning his autobiography, Whalen gives credit to the late Melville Minton, President of G.P. Putnam's Sons, for encouraging him to write a book about New York. [7] During an interview with the New Yorker in November 1955, Whalen claims that Minton asked him to write a book about New York during the 1920s.
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.
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.
Israel Potter (1744–1826) was a real person born in Cranston, Rhode Island.According to his own account, a memoir titled The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (published 1824), he had been a veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a sailor in the Revolutionary navy, a prisoner of the British, an escapee in England, a secret agent and courier in France, and a 45-year exile from ...
Books published by G. P. Putnam's Sons . Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. A. Ace Books books (1 C, 415 P) B. Berkley ...
Jones, 39, was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, for the March 1, 2021, shooting death of her son, Maddox Jones. The boy, a first-grader, was in his pajamas the morning he suffered ...
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.