They bought backlist books from Wyn and started Dramabooks,[1] publishing plays in trade paperback, then a new format.

The series included Jean Cocteau, Arthur L. Kopit and Lanford Wilson.

They continued to build the Hill & Wang list to include such authors as Roland Barthes, Langston Hughes, and American historians Stanley Kutler and William Cronon.

[2] In 1971, the two sold Hill & Wang to Farrar, Straus and Giroux,[3] and the imprint continues to be recognized for its high quality nonfiction.

More recently, it has published authors such as Cass Sunstein, Philip Gura, John Allen Paulos, Melvyn Leffler, Thomas Bender, William Poundstone, Woody Holton, and Eric Rauchway.