needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message henry holt and company parent company georg von holtzbrinck publishing group founded 1866 founder henry holt and frederick leypoldt country of origin united states headquarters location new york city publication types books hardcover and paperback nonfiction topics various imprints francis coady john macrae metropolitan times official website www.henryholt.com henry holt and company is an american book publishing company in new york city . one of the oldest publishers in the united states it was founded in 1866 by henry holt and frederick leypoldt . 1 currently the company publishes in the fields of american and international fiction biography history and politics science psychology and health as well as books for children s literature . in the us it operates under macmillan publishers . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit logo of henry holt and company as it appeared in the book in the dwellings of the wilderness by charlotte bryson taylor 1904 . the company publishes under several imprints including metropolitan books times books owl books and picador . it also publishes under the name of holt paperbacks . the company has published works by renowned authors erich fromm paul auster hilary mantel robert frost hermann hesse norman mailer herta m ller thomas pynchon robert louis stevenson ivan turgenev and h. g. wells . from 1951 to 1985 holt published the magazine field & stream . holt merged with rinehart & company of new york and the john c. winston company of philadelphia in 1960 to become holt rinehart and winston . the wall street journal reported on march 1 that holt stockholders had approved the merger last of the three approvals . henry holt is the surviving concern but will be known as holt rinehart winston inc. 2 cbs purchased the company in 1967 . but in 1985 the group split and the retail publishing arm along with the holt name was sold to the georg von holtzbrinck publishing group based in stuttgart which has retained holt as a subsidiary publishing under its original name and in the us it is part of macmillan publishers . the educational publishing arm which retained the holt rinehart and winston name was sold to harcourt . see also edit holt mcdougal references edit nancy lewis tuten . the robert frost encyclopedia . pg .149 henry holt merger . the wall street journal . march 1 1960 . page 12 . external links edit official website media related to henry holt and company at wikimedia commons v t e holtzbrinck publishing group holtzbrinck publishers s. fischer rowohlt kiepenheuer & witsch 85 % droemer knaur 50 % newspapers and magazines die zeit 50 % zeit wissen main post lausitzer rundschau main post saarbr cker zeitung s dkurier trierischer volksfreund 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