Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company was founded in 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Charles Little and James Brown, initially specializing in legal treatises and imported titles. The firm quickly established itself as the most extensive law publisher in the United States and was even the official publisher of the United States Statutes at Large from 1845 to 1874, under authority from Congress.

In the 1890s, the company expanded into general publishing, including fiction, and in 1925 entered a long-running partnership with Atlantic Monthly Press that lasted until 1985, producing landmark titles such as J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Mutiny on the Bounty. Early lists also featured Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson's poetry, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Over nearly two centuries, Little, Brown has published some of the most celebrated authors in the world, including Malcolm Gladwell, David Sedaris, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Nelson Mandela, and David Foster Wallace, as well as distinguished photography titles including the work of Ansel Adams.

The company was acquired by Time Inc. in 1968 and became part of the Time Warner Book Group in 1989. In 2006, it was sold to the French publishing group Hachette Livre, and today operates as a prominent imprint of Hachette Book Group USA. (littlebrown.co.uk, https://www.hachettebookgroup.com)