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Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools.. The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the earliest ancestor business, but Holt McDougal is distinct from contemporary Henry Holt and Company, which claims the history from 1866.
The Rinehart brothers were the sons of Mary Roberts Rinehart, a famous mystery writer whose books were published by the company. [3] Rinehart had supported her sons by leaving Doubleday, Doran when they (with Farrar) established Farrar & Rinehart in 1929; her bestselling mysteries were a mainstay of the new imprint.
"Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc." [6] CBS purchased the company in 1967, but in 1985, the group split, and the retail publishing arm, along with the Holt name, was sold to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based in Stuttgart , which has retained Holt as a subsidiary publishing ...
Henry Holt autograph letter Archived March 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine; Holt & Co. history (abstract) American literature is going to the dogs; it is the fault of magazines, says Henry Holt, who laments their exploitation of names and accuses government of unduly favoring them. New York Times, January 9, 1916.
Plainsong is a novel by Kent Haruf. [1] Set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, it tells the interlocking stories of some of the inhabitants.The title comes from a type of unadorned music sung in Christian churches, and is a reference to both the Great Plains setting and the simple style of the writing.
In 1981, the first edition of Holt's most noteworthy book on unschooling, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Manual on Homeschooling, was published. This book, as noted in the first lines of the introduction, is "about ways we can teach children, or rather, allow them to learn, outside of schools—at home, or in whatever other places and situations ...
This is a list of novelists from England writing for adults and young adults.Please add only one novel title or comment on fiction per name. Other genres appear in other lists and on subject's page.