Henry Holt and Company

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Biography Holt, Henry:

1840-1926, American author and publisher, b. Baltimore. In 1866 he became a partner in the publishing firm that became (1873) Henry Holt & Company. He was the author of several novels and the autobiographical Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor (1923). Henry Holt & Company merged to become Holt, Rinehart, & Winston (1960), which was acquired first by the Columbia Broadcasting System and then by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (1986), at which time Henry Holt & Company was again separated out and sold to the German publisher Holtzbrinck.

("Holt, Henry". 2015. In The Columbia Encyclopedia, Columbia University and Paul Lagasse. New York: Columbia University Press, accessed September 2015. www.credoreference.com)