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Bedford/St. Martin's
Parent companyMacmillan Publishers
StatusActive
Founded1981
FounderCharles Christensen and Joan Feinberg
SuccessorDenise Wydra
Country of originUS
Headquarters locationBoston and New York City
Publication typesTextbooks,
Fiction genreshumanities
Official websitewww.bedfordstmartins.com

Bedford/St. Martin's is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Macmillan Publishers, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are located in Boston and New York. The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg as Bedford Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Among others works, Bedford/St. Martin's has published The Bedford Handbook and A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, Patterns for College Writing, The Bedford Reader, The American Promise, Ways of the World and more Writer's Help.