One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt.

[2] The company publishes in the fields of American and international fiction, biography, history, politics, science, psychology, health, and children's literature.

[3] The company has published works by renowned authors Erich Fromm, Paul Auster, Hilary Mantel, Robert Frost, Hermann Hesse, Norman Mailer, Herta Müller, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Turgenev, and Noam Chomsky.

The educational publishing arm, which retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name, was sold to Harcourt.

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