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Lippincott was founded in 1943 as Dohner & Lippincott by Donald R. Dohner and J. Gordon Lippincott, who taught together at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After Dohner's sudden death in December of that year, the name was changed to J. Gordon Lippincott & Associates.
The merged company bought J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia in 1990; it merged Lippincott with the Raven Press to form Lippincott-Raven in 1995. [2] In 1997 and 1998, Wolters Kluwer acquired Thomson Science (owner of the Current Opinion medical journals), and Plenum and merged the medical publications of each with Lippincott-Raven. [3]
A portrait of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott by Thomas Eakins. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (March 18, 1813 – January 5, 1886) [2] founded the publishing company in Philadelphia when he was 23 years old. J. B. Lippincott & Co. began business publishing Bibles and prayer books before expanding into history, biography, fiction, poetry, and gift books.
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Joshua Lippincott (1835–1906), Chancellor of the University of Kansas 1883–1889; Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of J. B. Lippincott & Co. His grandson Joseph Wharton Lippincott (1887–1976), American publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman His son Joseph Wharton Lippincott Jr. (1914–2003), American publisher
The Joseph W. Lippincott Award was established in 1938 by the American Library Association. [1]It is presented annually to a librarian for distinguished service to the profession of librarianship, such service to include outstanding participation in the activities of the professional library association, notable published professional writing, or other significant activity on behalf of the ...
Lippincott's published several notable authors of the day, including: Gertrude Atherton: Doomswoman (1892) Willa Cather; Florence Earle Coates, Philadelphia poet whose poetry was featured nearly five dozen [1] times in Lippincott's between 1885 and 1915. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four (February 1890) Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Sport of ...