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Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.Founded in New York in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, the company operated as J. & J. Harper until 1833, when it changed its name to Harper & Brothers, reflecting the inclusion of Joseph and Fletcher Harper.
Books published by HarperCollins and its imprints — a subsidiary of News Corp, based in New York City. From 1833 to 1962 the company was known as Harper & Brothers . Between 1962 and 1990 the company was known as Harper & Row .
Ecco Press remained independent, although affiliated with Viking Press and W.W. Norton & Company for sales and distribution, until its acquisition by HarperCollins in 1999. [ 5 ] Notable titles published by Ecco since 1999 include the paperback edition of Anthony Bourdain 's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly and Patti ...
The HarperCollins Speakers Bureau (also known as HCSB) is the first lecture agency to be created by a major publishing house. [71] It was launched in May 2005 [71] as a division of HarperCollins to book paid speaking engagements for the authors HarperCollins, and its sister companies, publish. Andrea Rosen is the director.
In fall of 2005, Harper Perennial rebranded with a new logo (an Olive) and a distinct editorial direction emphasizing fiction and non-fiction from new and young authors. In the end matter, books often feature a brand-specific P.S. section that features extra material such as interviews.
The Eminent Lives series is HarperCollins' series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures." [1] The general editor of the series was James Atlas. The series includes books by: Robert Gottlieb on George Balanchine; Paul Johnson on George Washington; Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Jefferson; Michael Korda on Ulysses S ...
The Best American Series is a series of anthologies that is published annually by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Each title within the series covers a specific genre such as short stories or mysteries. The works for each year's edition are selected from those published elsewhere during the previous year.
In some editions, a digital version on CD-ROM was included with the dictionary in book form. The CCAD seems to be lacking in American English definitions. However, it has an American English equivalent titled Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English, which was originally published in 2006 (2nd edition in 2016, 3rd edition 2023). [3]