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Houghton Mifflin Company traces its roots to 1832, when William Ticknor and James Fields joined forces as publishers and booksellers. This was a golden era in American letters, and the firm of Ticknor & Fields published Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. When Ticknor died, James Osgood took over the company, and in the late 1870s this organization merged with that of Henry Houghton (who had established the Riverside Press in 1852), becoming Houghton, Mifflin & Company in 1880.
Today, the adult trade group publishes fiction and nonfiction of the highest quality, intended for a general audience. In nonfiction, the roster includes the finest writers in such categories as history, natural history, biography and memoir, science, and economics, including such preeminent figures as Winston Churchill, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and John Kenneth Galbraith. We also have a proud tradition of publishing works of social criticism that have spoken with great power through the generations, including Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the works of Jane Goodall, and, recently, the best-selling Constantine's Sword by James Carroll, and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser.
On the literary side, Houghton Mifflin launched the careers of such writers as Willa Cather, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Robert Penn Warren, Ann Petry, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Roth, Willie Morris, and Robert Stone. Our fiction list today also includes such distinguished names as Tim O'Brien, John Edgar Wideman, and Edna O'Brien.
Houghton Mifflin's commitment to poetry also spans well over one hundred years. Our current roster of poets includes Poet Laureate Donald Hall, among many distinguished others. |
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God Particles
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Earthly
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Old War
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Mission Work
by Aaron Baker
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A Yes-or-No Answer
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