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Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don ...
Explore the records of Scribners, a New York City publisher from 1846 to 1984, and its family and staff. Find correspondence, manuscripts, catalogs, and more from authors such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Churchill.
Charles Scribner, Jr. was the son of Charles Scribner III and the longtime head of the Charles Scribner's Sons book publishing company. He succeeded his father in 1952 as chief of the family publishing house, which had been founded by his great-grandfather in 1846.
Scribner family, family of American publishers whose firm, founded in 1846 and named Charles Scribner’s Sons from 1878, issued books and several periodicals. Charles Scribner (b. Feb. 21, 1821, New York, N.Y.—d. Aug. 26, 1871, Lucerne, Switz.) established the firm in partnership with Isaac D. Baker.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In full: Maxwell Evarts Perkins. Born: Sept. 20, 1884, New York, N.Y., U.S. Died: June 17, 1947, Stamford, Conn. (aged 62)
In short succession, Charles Scribner’s Sons published Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Famed editors Maxwell Perkins and John Hall Wheelock realized that a new era in American literature was dawning, and in 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise , proclaimed the Jazz Age.
Learn how Ernest Hemingway was published by Charles Scribner's Sons for over 35 years, under the guidance of three generations of Scribners. Read a lecture by Charles Scribner III, the fourth Scribner, on Hemingway's significance as a writer and a man.
