Henry Holt
Henry Holt is one of the oldest publishing houses in the USA. The company was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Eleven years earlier, Leypoldt had moved to the United States from his hometown of Stuttgart. Today, Henry Holt is still famous for its high-quality ranges of books.
Authors such as Erich Fromm, Robert Frost, Hermann Hesse, Norman Mailer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Turgenev and H.G. Wells have left their mark on the publisher. Today the titles include American and international fiction, biographies, books on history and politics, science, psychology and health as well as children’s books. Among the most famous current authors are Rick Atkinson, Paul Auster, Robert Frost, Al and Tipper Gore, Tony Horwitz, David Levering Lewis, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie and Gloria Steinem.
Moreover, the publishing house publishes books under other imprints:
Metropolitan Books (fiction and nonfiction)
Times Books in cooperation with the leading daily newspaper The New York Times (science, economics and current affairs)
Owl Books (nonfiction paperback)
Books for Young Readers (books for children and young adults)
