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St Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan in New York City. It is headquartered in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under six imprints. St. Martin's Press's current editor in chief is George Witte. Jennifer Enderlin was named publisher in 2016. Sally Richardson was appointed chairman in 2018. The imprints include St. Martin's Press (mainstream and bestseller books), St. Martin's Griffin (mainstream paperback books, including fiction and nonfiction), Minotaur ( mystery, suspense, and thrillers), Castle Point Books (specialty nonfiction), St. Martin's Essentials (lifestyle), and Wednesday Books (young adult fiction). History After selling its stake in Macmillan US in 1951, Macmillan Publishers of the UK founded St. Martin's in 1952 and named it after St Martin's Lane in London, where Macmillan Publishers was headquartered. St. Martin' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the Big Five (publishers), "Big Five" English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster). Founded in London in 1843 by Scottish brothers Daniel MacMillan, Daniel and Alexander MacMillan (publisher), Alexander MacMillan, the firm soon established itself as a leading publisher in Britain. It published two of the best-known works of Victorian-era children's literature, Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' (1894). Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harold Macmillan, grandson of co-founder Daniel, was chairman of the company from 1964 until his death in December 1986. Since 1999, Macmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 632,865 as of 2022, making it the list of cities in Germany by population, sixth largest city in Germany, while over 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and nearly 5.5 million people in Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, its metropolitan area, making it the metropolitan regions in Germany, fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, top 5 Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author known for young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels '' Eleanor & Park'' (2012), '' Fangirl'' (2013), and '' Carry On'' (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim. She was the writer of the 2017 revival of Marvel Comics' '' Runaways'' and for She-Hulk from 2022 to 2024. Career Early career Rowell was a columnist and ad copywriter at the '' Omaha World-Herald'' from 1995 to 2012. Adult novels After leaving her position as a columnist, Rowell began working for an ad agency and writing what would become her first published novel, '' Attachments'', as a pastime. Rowell gave birth to her first son during this period and paused work on the manuscript for two years. The novel, a contemporary romantic comedy about a company's IT guy who falls in love with a woman whose email he has been monitoring, was published in 2011. ''Kirkus Reviews'' listed it as one of the outstanding debuts that year. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of over 225 novels, known for romance novel, romance published under her own name. She also writes police procedurals which have elements of science fiction under the name J. D. Robb, and has published as Jill March and (in the U.K.) Sarah Hardesty. Life and career Personal life Early years Roberts was born on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. Her parents have Irish ancestry, and she has described herself as "an Irishwoman through and through". Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. Although she had always imagined stories from childhood, Roberts did not write in her youth other than essays for school. She does claim to have "told lies. Really good ones—some of which my mother still believes." She credits the nuns at her Catholic school for instilling in her a sense of discipline. Marriages During her se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Penny
Louise Penny (born July 1, 1958) is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2007–2010), and the Anthony Awards, Anthony Award for best novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2010–2013). Her novels have been published in 23 languages. Early life and career with the CBC Penny was born in Toronto, Canada, on July 1, 1958. Her mother was an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular liking for crime fiction, and Louise grew up reading mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes. Penny earned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Coes
Ben Coes (born September 10, 1966) is a ''New York Times'' best-selling author of international political thriller and espionage novels. Coes's novels feature Dewey Andreas, a former member of U.S. Special Forces 1st SFOD-D, also known as Delta Force. Coes has called his books "reality-based," drawing upon his early career at the White House and in finance. Coes has credited his godfather, a former member of the U.S. Navy SEALs, with influencing the often violent, brutally realistic plots of his novels. Early life Ben Coes was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in West Simsbury, Connecticut. He attended the Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts which counts Franklin D. Roosevelt among its alumni Coes attended Columbia College in New York City, where he was awarded the university's writing prize, the Bennett Cerf Memorial Award. Political and business career Coes started his career as a White House intern under President Ronald Reagan, and then served as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynda Lopez
Lynda Lopez (born June 14, 1971) is an American journalist and author based in New York City. She is also a co-founder of Nuyorican Productions, an American production company founded in 2001 with Benny Medina which became active in 2006 with the release of '' South Beach.'' Lopez has anchored numerous media platforms. In 2020, Lopez authored the book '' AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'', published by St. Martin's Press. Early years Lopez was born in the South Bronx and raised in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx borough within New York City, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David López, a computer specialist. She has two older sisters: Leslie Ann, a teacher, and Jennifer, a singer and actress. Lopez received her primary and secondary education while growing up in the Bronx. After graduating from Preston High School in 1989, she enrolled at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah (born September 25, 1960) is an Americans, American writer. Her most notable works include ''Winter Garden'', ''The Nightingale (Hannah novel), The Nightingale'', ''Firefly Lane (novel), Firefly Lane'', ''The Great Alone'', and ''The Four Winds''. In 2024, ''The Women (Hannah novel), The Women'', was published. It is set in the United States in the 1960s during the Vietnam War. Biography Kristin Hannah was born in California. After graduating with a degree in communication from the University of Washington in 1983, Hannah worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound law school and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time, but the book was never published. Hannah's best-selling work, ''The Nightingale (Hannah novel), The Nightingale'', has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves (born 24 October 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel '' Raven Black'', the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series. Early life and career Cleeves was born in Herefordshire and brought up in north Devon where she attended Barnstaple Grammar School; she studied English at the University of Sussex, but dropped out and then took up various jobs, including cook at the Fair Isle bird observatory, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker, and child care officer. Television adaptations Cleeves's work was first optioned for television after producer Elaine Collins discovered a copy of one of the Vera novels, '' The Crow Trap'', while searching for holiday reading in an Oxfam shop in north London where she lived. Collins was the books executive for ITV Studios, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Castillo
Linda Castillo is an American author of novels including ''The New York Times'' and ''USA Today'' bestselling ''Kate Burkholder'' series, which are crime thrillers set in Amish country. The first book, ''Sworn to Silence'' (2009), was adapted into a Lifetime original movie titled ''An Amish Murder'' starring Neve Campbell. She has also written numerous romance and romantic suspense novels. Castillo grew up in Arcanum, Ohio and now lives in Texas with her husband. Awards and honors Castillo is the recipient of the Daphne du Maurier Award and the Holt Medallion. She has been nominated for the RITA Award, for the Mystery Writers of America Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. It presents the E ...'s Sue Grafton Memorial Award, and for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill O'Reilly (political Commentator)
William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American Conservatism in the United States, conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host. O'Reilly's broadcasting career began during the late 1970s and 1980s, when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News (United States), ABC News, the former of which earned O'Reilly two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He anchored the Tabloid journalism, tabloid news broadcasting#television, television program ''Inside Edition'' from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted the news commentary program ''The O'Reilly Factor'' until 2017. ''The O'Reilly Factor'' had been the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as "the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News" at the time of his departure. During his time at Fox News, he ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston (born January 21, 1991) is an American author of romance novels in the new adult fiction genre, best known for their ''New York Times'' best-selling debut novel '' Red, White & Royal Blue'', in which the son of America's first female president falls in love with a prince of England, and sophomore book '' One Last Stop''. McQuiston made their debut in the young adult fiction genre with their book ''I Kissed Shara Wheeler'' which was released on May 3, 2022. They were included in ''Time'' magazine's 2022 Time 100 Next list. Personal life McQuiston was born on January 21, 1991 and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They attended Louisiana State University and received a degree in journalism. Prior to publishing their first book, they waited tables, freelanced, and worked extensively in magazine publishing. McQuiston previously lived in Fort Collins, Colorado and currently lives in New York City. McQuiston is queer, non-binary, and uses ''they/them'' pronouns. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
