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Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).
Macmillan Inc. was an American book publishing company originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers.The two were later separated and acquired by other companies, with the remnants of the original American division of Macmillan present in McGraw-Hill Education's Macmillan/McGraw-Hill textbooks, Gale's Macmillan Reference USA division, and some trade ...
Pacesetter Novels are a collection of 130 works of popular fiction written by notable African authors, published by Macmillan. [1] The series was started in 1977, with the first book being Director! by Agbo Areo.
Macmillan assigned George Edward Brett to create the New York office in August 1869 and hired American firm Messrs. Pott & Amery to assist in the marketing and distribution of Macmillan's books. [4] Alexander's brother Daniel was the grandfather of Harold Macmillan, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Freak the Mighty was later adapted into a movie titled The Mighty. He wrote the cyberpunk , dystopian novel The Last Book in the Universe and the science fantasy novel REM World . Other works for young readers include The Young Man and the Sea , which is dedicated to his nieces Annie and Molly, and The Fire Pony , about two brothers on the run ...
McCune has funded schools in the developing world, [8] and made contributions to California organizations and educational establishments, including $2.5 million to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, [9] $3.5 million to found the SAGE Center For the Study of the Mind at UCSB, [10] [11] and over $5 million to the Granada Theater Restoration Project. [12]
By the start of the 1970s, Crowell Collier & Macmillan was now a $400 million multinational producer of books and educational materials. [96] Crowell Collier & Macmillan decided to change the name of the company to Macmillan, Inc. First, though, they encountered a legal battle over the name with Macmillan Publishers Ltd. of London—who had ...
The Rachel McMillan College, named after Margaret's sister, was founded in 1930 and merged with Goldsmiths College in the 1970s, although student accommodation still exists in Creek Road, Deptford, bearing her name.