E. P. Dutton

E. P. Dutton is an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton.

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In 1864, Dutton expanded to New York City where they began publishing religious books. John Macrae joined the company in 1885 as an office boy and in 1923 was named president. In 1928 the publishing and retail divisions were split into two separate businesses with Macrae acquiring the publishing side, operating as E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc.. For the next fifty-eight years, E. P. Dutton was one of the leading independent publishers in the United States, putting out works by writers such as John Hunt, Cleveland Amory, Milton Glaser, Francoise Sagan, Lawrence Durrell, Luigi Pirandello, John Irving Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Matthiessen, Gavin Maxwell, Gail Sheehy and Mickey Spillane.

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Dutton Children's Books is one of the oldest continually operating children's book publishers in the United States whose books include the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

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In 1986, Dutton Books was acquired by the Penguin Group (USA) and operates now as an imprint.

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