needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message farrar straus and giroux parent company macmillan publishers founded 1946 founder john c. farrar roger w. straus jr. country of origin united states headquarters location new york new york key people jonathan galassi imprints hill & wang north point sarah crichton official website farrar straus and giroux farrar straus and giroux fsg is an american book publishing company founded in 1946 by roger w. straus jr. and john c. farrar . 1 fsg is known for publishing literary books and has won numerous awards including pulitizer prizes national book awards and nobel peace prizes . the publisher is currently a division of macmillan whose parent company is the german publishing conglomerate georg von holtzbrinck publishing group . 2 contents 1 early years 2 21st century 3 notable authors 4 notable editors and publishers 5 current imprints 6 bibliography 7 books for young readers 8 winners of the nobel prize in literature 9 winners of the nobel peace prize 10 winners of the pulitzer prize 11 winners of the national book award 12 other authors published by fsg 13 references 14 further reading 15 external links early years edit farrar straus and giroux was founded in 1946 by roger w. straus jr. and john c. farrar . 1 the first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book look younger live longer by gayelord hauser in 1950 . the book went on to sell 500 000 copies and straus said that the book carried them along for awhile . 1 in the early years straus and his wife dorthea went prospecting for books in italy . it was there that they found the memoir christ stopped at eboli by carlo levi and other rising italian authors alberto moravia giovanni guareschi and cesare pavese . 1 farrar straus also poached or lured away authors from other publishers one was edmund wilson who was unhappy with random house at the time but remained with farrar straus for the remainder of his career . 1 robert giroux joined the company in 1955 and after he later became a partner the name was changed to farrar straus and giroux . 1 giroux had been working for harcourt and had been angered when harcourt refused to allow him to publish salinger s catcher in the rye . 1 giroux brought many literary authors with him including thomas merton john berryman robert lowell flannery o connor jack kerouac peter taylor randall jarrell t.s. eliot and bernard malamud . 1 alan williams described giroux s pied piper sweep as almost certainly the greatest number of authors to follow on their own iniative a single editor from house to house in the history of modern publishing . 1 in 1964 straus named giroux chairman of the board and officially added giroux s name to the publishing company . 1 straus continued to run the company for twenty years after his partner farrar died until 1993 when he sold a majority interest of the company to the privately owned german publishing conglomerate georg von holtzbrinck publishing group . 1 straus offered fsg to the holtzbrinck family because of their reputation for publishing serious works of literature . 1 21st century edit jonathan galassi is president and publisher . andrew mandel joined in 2004 as deputy publisher . eric chinski is editor in chief . in 2008 mitzi angel came from fourth estate in the uk to be publisher of the faber and faber inc. imprint . other notable editors include sean mcdonald ileene smith alex star amanda moon and sarah crichton eponymous publisher of her own imprint . in february 2015 fsg and faber and faber announced the end of their partnership . all books scheduled for release and previously released under the imprint will be moved to the fsg colophon by august 2016 . 3 notable authors edit bernard malamud carlo levi edmund wilson isaac bashevis singer jack kerouac john berryman joseph brodsky flannery o connor peter taylor randall jarrell robert lowell scott turow t.s. eliot thomas merton tom wolfe notable editors and publishers edit sheila cudahy 1 aaron asher 1 henry robbins 1 jonathan galassi robert giroux roger straus iii 1 current imprints edit faber and faber inc. publishes a backlist of drama and books on the arts entertainment music pop culture cultural criticism and the media . its authors include david auburn margaret edson doug wright richard greenberg tom stoppard david hare neil labute peter conrad martin eisenstadt and courtney love . hill and wang 4 publishes books of academic interest and specializes in history . its authors include roland barthes william cronon langston hughes and elie wiesel . sarah crichton books publishes books with a slightly commercial bent . the imprint launched with cathleen falsani s the god factor in 2006 . ishmael beah s a long way gone was a bestseller and a starbucks featured book in 2007 . 5 north point press published literary nonfiction with an emphasis on natural history travel ecology music food and cultural criticism . its authors include peter matthiessen beryl markham guy davenport a. j. liebling margaret visser wendell berry and m. f. k. fisher . scientific american fsg 6 led by amanda moon publishes non fiction popular science books for the general reader . its authors include jesse bering daniel chamovitz kevin dutton and caleb scharf . bibliography edit main article list of farrar straus and giroux books books for young readers edit fsg books for young readers publishes national book award winners madeleine l engle 1980 william steig 1983 louis sachar 1998 and polly horvath 2003 . books for young readers also publishes natalie babbitt roald dahl jack gantos george selden uri shulevitz and peter sis . winners of the nobel prize in literature edit knut hamsun 1920 hermann hesse 1946 t. s. eliot 1948 p r lagerkvist 1951 fran ois mauriac 1952 juan ramon jimenez 1956 salvatore quasimodo 1959 nelly sachs 1966 yasunari kawabata 1968 aleksandr solzhenitsyn 1970 pablo neruda 1971 eugenio montale 1975 isaac bashevis singer 1978 czes aw mi osz 1980 elias canetti 1981 william golding 1983 wole soyinka 1986 joseph brodsky 1987 camilo jos cela 1989 nadine gordimer 1991 derek walcott 1992 seamus heaney 1995 mario vargas llosa 2010 winners of the nobel peace prize edit norman angell 1933 7 elie wiesel 1986 8 winners of the pulitzer prize edit john berryman 1965 bernard malamud 1967 jean stafford 1970 robert lowell 1974 paul horgan 1976 lanford wilson 1980 james schuyler 1981 charles fuller 1982 marsha norman 1983 thomas l. friedman 1983 1988 2002 oscar hijuelos 1990 charles wright 1998 michael cunningham 1999 john mcphee 1999 margaret edson 1999 c. k. williams 2000 david auburn 2001 louis menand 2002 jeffrey eugenides 2003 paul muldoon 2003 doug wright 2004 marilynne robinson 2005 elizabeth a. fenn 2015 winners of the national book award edit bernard malamud 1959 1967 robert lowell 1960 john berryman 1969 elizabeth bishop 1970 isaac bashevis singer 1970 1974 donald barthelme 1972 flannery o connor 1972 richard b. sewall 1975 michael j. arlen 1976 tom wolfe 1980 paula fox 1983 larry heinemann 1987 thomas l. friedman 1989 alice mcdermott 1998 edward ball 1998 susan sontag 2000 jonathan franzen 2001 shirley hazzard 2003 c. k. williams 2003 richard powers 2006 denis johnson 2007 george packer 2013 louise gl ck 2014 evan osnos 2014 other authors published by fsg edit stephen amidon benjamin anastas kirsten bakis emily barton elif batuman alan bennett maurice berger roberto bola o brian a. catlos michael w. clune robert s. corrington jim crace michelle cuevas arthur c. danto laurie halse anderson lydia davis deborah eisenberg anne fadiman noah feldman ian frazier john freeman carlos fuentes rivka galchen jostein gaarder amy gerstler louise gl ck philip gourevitch david grand john haskell sheila heti ted hughes shirley jackson jamaica kincaid bill knott christian kracht fiona maazel doug marlette malachi martin edward mendelson sigrid nunez jenny offill george packer walker percy robert pinsky richard powers wilhelm reich philip roth alex ross james salter frederick seidel joanna scott sj n deborah solomon whitney terrell scott turow amy waldman katharine weber a. n. wilson james wood charles wright lois ann yamanaka references edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p silverman al 2008 . the time of their lives the golden age of great american book publishers their editors and authors . truman talley . isbn 978 0312 35003 1 . macmillan . about macmillan . us.macmillan.com . retrieved 2016 06 19 . farrington joshua . faber ends fsg partnership . the bookseller . the bookseller . retrieved 19 july 2015 . 1 dead link questia your online research library . accessmylibrary.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . editors the . scientific american books scientific american . books.scientificamerican.com . retrieved 2014 02 20 . norman angell after all the autobiography of norman angell london hamish hamilton 1951 ; rpt . farrar straus and young 1952 . elie wiesel night hill & wang 1958 ; rpt . 2006 . further reading edit hothouse the art of survival and the survival of art at america s most celebrated publishing house farrar straus and giroux boris kachka . new york simon & schuster 2013 isbn 978 145169189 4 external links edit farrar straus and giroux farrar straus and giroux on twitter farrar straus and giroux books for young readers work in progress an online magazine by farrar straus and giroux farrar straus and giroux collection of isaac bashevis singer papers at the harry ransom center at the university of texas at austin farrar straus & geroux inc. records 1899 2003 manuscripts and archives division new york public library . 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 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