Macmillan Press

The Macmillan Publishing House:

Mission and History: Macmillan’s mission is to promote literacy in youth, maintain access to all kinds of books, banned or otherwise, and be an environmentally sustainable press. They combat censorship by supporting organizations such as the “National Coalition Against Censorship” and “Unite Against Book Bans”. They also support organizations like “The Soho Center”, the “National Book Foundation”, “Lambda Literacy”, and “Words Without Borders”, which are groups dedicated to literacy and community engagement and development. The press was founded by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan in 1843 and has since expanded to become an international publishing house with offices all over the world and a total of ten imprints. This was largely due to the fact that when former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan became Chairman, he chose to focus on the literacy and educational value present in Macmillan, and with his leadership, Macmillan established themselves as a global press. The press gained popularity publishing authors such as Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling, and to this day remains one of the largest presses that authors seek out, and one of the Big Five Publishers.

Ownership and Structure: Macmillan press contains the publishers Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin’s Publishing Group, and the Tor Publishing Group, to name a few.

Notable Titles and Authors: Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Upton Sinclair, Leigh Bardugo, and Sarah J Maas. Titles include Six of Crows, Court of Thorns and Roses, The Lunar Chronicles, and many more.