Harper & Row

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Harper & Row was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book publisher
publishing company
country United States of America
dissolved 1990
focusesOn educational and academic markets
general trade publishing
foundedBy Harper & Brothers
Row, Peterson and Company
genre academic publishing
educational publishing
literature
hasFormerName Harper & Brothers
hasPublicationType educational materials
hardcover books
paperback books
reference works
hasSlogan “Publishers since 1817” (reflecting Harper & Brothers heritage)
headquartersLocation New York City
inception 1962
industry publishing
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity New York
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
mainAreaOfActivity United States of America
surface form: United States
mergerOrAcquisition HarperCollins
surface form: Collins (British publisher)
notableAuthorPublished C. S. Lewis
E. B. White
Harper Lee
J. R. R. Tolkien
Shel Silverstein
notableWork To Kill a Mockingbird
operatedInCentury 20th century
ownedBy News Corporation
parentOrganization News Corporation
partOf HarperCollins
surface form: HarperCollins (after 1990 merger)
predecessor Harper & Brothers
Row, Peterson and Company
product academic monographs
books
children's books
textbooks
reasonForDissolution merger to form HarperCollins
significantEvent acquired by News Corporation in 1987
merged with Collins in 1990 to form HarperCollins
successor HarperCollins

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

J. B. Lippincott & Co. acquiredBy Harper & Row
Harper's Magazine formerPublisher Harper & Row
Harper & Brothers mergedInto Harper & Row
William Collins, Sons mergerPartner Harper & Row
Harper predecessor Harper & Row
HarperCollins predecessor Harper & Row
Ariel publisher Harper & Row
Cartesian Linguistics publisher Harper & Row
subject surface form: Disturbing the Universe
subject surface form: Infinite in All Directions
Strength to Love publisher Harper & Row
The Bell Jar publisher Harper & Row
To Space and Back publisher Harper & Row
Weapons and Hope (book) publisher Harper & Row
subject surface form: Weapons and Hope
Why We Can’t Wait publisher Harper & Row
Harper & Brothers successor Harper & Row