- Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, … - John Holt
John Holt (1726 - 1784) was a Colonial American newspaper publisher and the Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia. John Holt was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1726 his parents being David and Margaret Dibnall Holt. He married Elizabeth Hunter the daughter of an associate and had at least two children Elizabeth born on April 19, 1746 and John born in July of 1748. For business purposes Holt built a 'new store' in Williamsburg on Duke of Gloucester Street in about 1745. - Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf (September 12, 1892 - August 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the 20th century, founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation. - James Brown
James Brown (1800 - 1855) was an American publisher and co-founder of Little, Brown and Company. Brown was born in Acton, Massachusetts. He and Charles Coffin Little, both former clerks, became partners in a Boston bookstore. Founded in 1837 as Charles C. Little and James Brown, Augustus Flagg joined them in 1838 and would become managing partner after the deaths of the two founders. The firm's name was changed to Little, Brown and Company in 1847. - Jim Lee
Jim Lee (born august 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, creator and publisher. After graduating from Yale, he decided to give comic book drawing a shot and was met with succes. Jim Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration, and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the latter 20th and early 21st century. - Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - John Murray
John Murray was a Scottish publisher and member of the famous John Murray publishing house. Murray was the son of the founder, who died when he was only fifteen years old. During his youth, the business was conducted by Samuel Highley, who was admitted a partner, but in 1803 the partnership was dissolved. - Nick Denton
Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters". - Larry Flynt
Larry Claxton Flynt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American publisher and the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP). LFP mainly produces pornographic videos and magazines, most notably "Hustler". The company has an annual turnover approximating $150 million. Larry Flynt has had several legal battles involving the First Amendment, and has run for public office a number of times. - Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. She is the author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers. - Scott Adams
Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers. Born in Miami, Florida, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 (on a 16KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in the BASIC programming language). These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN. - Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. - Jazz
"Jazz" (1947) is a book of about one hundred prints based on paper cutouts by Henri Matisse. Tériade, a noted 20th century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir (stencil) prints. - Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. April 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002). Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, … - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - Allen Lane
Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams), was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books, bringing high quality, paperback fiction and non-fiction to a mass market. Allen Lane Williams was born in Bristol to Camilla (née Lane) and Samuel Williams, and studied at Bristol Grammar School. In 1919 he joined the publishing company Bodley Head as an apprentice to his uncle and founder of the company John Lane. - John Martin
John Martin (publisher) was the founder of Black Sparrow Press. He is most noted for helping to launch the literary career of Charles Bukowski. - John Carter
John Carter was an English author and Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society. His 1934 exposé, "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets", co-written with author Graham Pollard, exposed the antique book forgery scheme of Harry Forman, the distinguished executive editor of Keats and Shelley publishers, and Thomas J. Wise, one of the world's most prominent book collectors. - David Lawrence
David Lawrence (December 25, 1888 - February 11, 1973) was a conservative newspaperman and former student of Woodrow Wilson's at Princeton University. After Wilson's reelection as U.S. President in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson fired Irish-American staffmember Joe Tumulty in 1916 to placate anti-Catholic sentiment particularly from his wife and his advisor Colonel Edward M. House. - George Jones
George Jones was an American journalist who co-founded with Henry Jarvis Raymond the "New-York Daily Times", now the "New York Times", publishing its first issue on September 18, 1851. Before founding the New-York Daily Times Jones was an Albany banker. Upon Raymond's death in 1869, Jones took over as publisher. Between 1870 and 1871 the newspaper published a series of exposés that contributed to the downfall of Boss Tweed and his corrupt city government. - Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell (born August 10 1955) is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of "From Hell" (written by Alan Moore), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical "Alec" stories, and "Bacchus" (aka "Deadface"), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day. His graphic novel "The Fate of the Artist", … - Scott Miller
Scott Miller is an entrepreneur and former game programmer. Miller is the founder and CEO of Apogee Software, Ltd. (currently known as 3D Realms Entertainment), started in 1987. He started as game programmer, but now handles primary business duties of the company, as well as producing and co-designing all third-party games associated with the company, including "Wolfenstein 3D", "Raptor", "Terminal Velocity", "Max Payne" and "Prey". - J. M. Dent
Joseph Malaby Dent (30 August 1849 - 9 May 1926) was a British book publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series. Dent was born in Darlington and after a short and unsuccessful stint as an apprentice printer he took up bookbinding. At the age of fifteen he gave a talk on James Boswell's Life of Johnson which would be the first book printed in the Everyman's Library. - Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. - Robert Young
Robert Young (1822-1888) was a Scottish publisher who was self-taught and proficient in various ancient languages. He had his own published works, the most well known being a Bible translation commonly referred to as Young's Literal Translation. He was born in Edinburgh and eventually served an apprenticeship in printing and simultaneously taught himself various oriental languages. - Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica (August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940), was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black nationalist, orator, black separatist, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., a mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker and farmer. - Jim Baen
James Patrick "Jim" Baen was a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, and military science fiction / space opera genres. In late 1999 he started an electronic publishing business called Webscriptions, considered to be the first profitable e-book vendor despite not using encryption or DRM. He was considered a controversial figure during his own lifetime, … - Samuel French
Samuel French (1821 - 1898) was a U.S. entrepreneur who, together with British actor, playwright and theatrical manager Thomas Hailes Lacy, pioneered in the field of theatrical publishing and the licensing of plays. French started his publishing business in New York City in 1854. In 1859 he visited London, where he met Lacy, who had given up the stage and been active as a theatrical bookseller since the mid-1840s. Lacy, who had removed his shop from Wellington Street, … - John Bell
John Bell (1745-1831) was an English publisher. The "Dictionary of National Biography" has Charles Knight calling Bell a "mischievous spirit, the very Puck of booksellers." His 109-volume, literature-for-the-masses "Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill", which rivaled Samuel Johnson's "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" (1781), was published from 1777 to 1783. - John Lane
John Lane (March 14, 1854 - February 2, 1925) was a British publisher. Originally from Devon, where he was born into a farming family, Lane moved to London already in his teens. While working as a clerk at the Railway Clearing House, he acquired knowledge as an autodidact. After entering the London book trade he became co-founder of The Bodley Head, originally a firm that dealt with antiquarian books. They later went into publishing. - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor was an English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals. He published the first edition of the "Philosophical Magazine" in 1798 and went of to publish the "Annals of Natural History" in 1838. He edited and published "Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science" from 1837 to 1852. In 1852 he was joined by the chemist, Dr William Francis to form Taylor and Francis. - David R. Godine
David R. Godine is the founder and president of David R. Godine, Inc., a small publishing house located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company is independent and its list tends to reflect the individual (sometimes quirky) tastes of its president. After receiving degrees at Dartmouth College and Harvard University, David Godine worked for Leonard Baskin, the renowned typographer and printmaker, and Harold McGrath, his master printer. - Hendrik Hertzberg
Hendrik Hertzberg (b. 1943) is an American journalist, best known as the principal (and left-leaning) political commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine. He has also been a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and editor of "The New Republic", and is the author of "Politics: Observations & Arguments". The son of Sidney Hertzberg, a journalist and political activist, and Hazel Whitman Hertzberg, … - Rich Karlgaard
Rich Karlgaard is publisher of "Forbes" magazine since July 1, 1998. Before that, he was editor of Forbes ASAP. A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, he graduated from Stanford University, with a B.A. in Political Science. He attended Stanford after transferring from Bismarck State College, where he had earned a track and field scholarship. Karlgaard was a co-founder of "Upside Magazine". He is an avid pilot and author of "Life 2.0". - David Robinson
David Robinson (born December 31, 1973) is a British photographer and publisher. - Felix Dennis
Felix Dennis (born 1947) is a British magazine publisher. His privately owned company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom. In more recent times the company has added lifestyle titles to its range, including "Maxim" and "The Week", which are published both in Britain and the US. Dennis started his career in publishing as one of the people behind Oz magazine, … - Richard Mellon Scaife
Richard Mellon Scaife (born July 3, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American billionaire and newspaper publisher. Scaife owns and publishes the "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review". With $1.2 billion, Scaife, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, is No. 283 on the 2005 Forbes 400. Scaife is particularly well known for his financial support of conservative public policy organizations over the past two decades. - Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales (Solomon) Lewental was a Polish Jewish publisher; born at Wloclawek, Russian Poland, 1839; died at Wiesbaden on September 24, 1902. In 1862 Lewental, the son of poor Jewish parents, bought with his accumulated savings the press of the Warsaw publisher John Glücksberg (d. 1859), and began his career with the "Kalendarz Ludowy," a popular almanac, which he continued until 1866. In 1865, in conjunction with others, he founded "Kłosy," an illustrated weekly, … - David Graham
David Graham is the pen name of Robert Hale, a British publisher who in the 1970s wrote his most famous piece of work, "Down to a Sunless Sea". - Norman Spector
Norman Spector (born 1949) is a Canadian journalist, diplomat, civil servant, and newspaper publisher. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Spector received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Political Science, from McGill University in 1970. Awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, he received a Master of Philosophy degree in Political Science from Columbia University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1977. In 1974, as a Newhouse Fellow, he received a Master of Science degree in Television, …
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