10 Facts About Little Brown

1.

Since 2006 Little, Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group.

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2.

In 1853, Little, Brown began publishing the works of British poets from Chaucer to Wordsworth.

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3.

Little Brown held the rights to his Familiar Quotations, and Little, Brown published the 15th edition of the work in 1980,125 years after its first publication.

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4.

In 1898, Little, Brown purchased a list of titles from the Roberts Brothers firm.

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5.

John Murray Brown died in 1908 and James W McIntyre became managing partner.

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6.

In 1925, Little, Brown entered into an agreement to publish all Atlantic Monthly books.

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7.

Little, Brown acquired the medical publisher College Hill Press in 1986.

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8.

Little, Brown was made part of the Time Warner Book Group when Time merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner in 1989.

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9.

In 2011, Little, Brown launched an imprint devoted to suspense publishing: Mulholland Books.

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10.

In October 2017, Little, Brown started an unnamed imprint devoted to health, lifestyle, psychology, and science with the appointment of Tracy Behar as the imprint's vice president, publisher, and editor-in-chief.

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