E. P. Dutton

E. P. Dutton

Parent company	Penguin Group
Founded	1852
Founder	Edward Payson Dutton
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York, New York
Publication types	Books

E. P. Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton. In 1986, the company was acquired by Penguin Group and split into two imprints: Dutton and Dutton Children's Books.

History

Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston, in 1852 the eponymous E. P. Dutton, but it wasn't until 1864 when a branch office was set up in New York, that the company began to publish books. Its original focus was on religious titles, and the first bestseller was the two-volume Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar, published in 1874.

1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company rising in the ranks. He became President in 1923, and in 1928 he bought the publishing house and shared it with his two sons. During his tenure, E. P. Dutton published notable books such as The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory, Marchette Chute's Shakespeare of London, Pipiolo and the Roof Dogs by Brian Meunier, The Conquest of Everest by John Hunt, Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan, as well as works by Lawrence Durrell, Milton Glaser, and Luigi Pirandello. The company also went on to publish books by John Irving (The World According to Garp), Peter Matthiessen, Jorge Luis Borges, Gavin Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, Gail Sheehy (Passages), and Mickey Spillane.

E. P. Dutton ceased to exist as an independent company in 1985, when New American Library brought the company, which in turn acquired by Viking Penguin (now Penguin Group USA) a year later, splitting into two imprints: Dutton and Dutton Children's Books. Dutton Children's Books is the US publisher of the the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Publications

Books published by E.P. Dutton, prior to its reorganization in 1986, include:

• The Book of Sand, Jorge Luis Borges (1975)
• Black Robe, Brian Moore (1985)

External links

• Dutton imprint page at Penguin USA
• Dutton Children's Book imprint page at Penguin USA