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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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American book publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes. Since 1993, the publisher has been a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.² It is part of Macmillan Publishers.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1946Founded¹

HeadquartersNew York City¹
Websiteus.macmillan.com/fsg

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Corporate structure

Farrar, Straus and Giroux is part of a group headed by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. 101 entities, 14 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Stuttgart, Germany
- GvH Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft XXXIII mbH Stuttgart, Germany
  - Macmillan Inc. New York, New York, United States
- Macmillan Publishers Basingstoke, United Kingdom
  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York City
    - North Point Press Subsidiary · San Francisco
    - MCD | Farrar, Straus and Giroux Subsidiary
    - Sarah Crichton Books Subsidiary
  - Palgrave Macmillan Subsidiary · Basingstoke
  - St. Martin's Press Subsidiary · New York City
    - St. Martin's Griffin Subsidiary
    - Thomas Dunne Books Subsidiary · United States
  - Tor Publishing Group Subsidiary · Equitable Building, United States
    - Forge Books Subsidiary
    - Tor Books Subsidiary · Equitable Building
    - Nightfire Subsidiary
    - Orb Books Subsidiary
    - Tor Essentials Subsidiary · New York City, United States
    - Tor Fantasy Subsidiary · New York City, United States
    - Tordotcom Publishing Subsidiary
  - W. H. Freeman and Company Subsidiary
  - PAN MACMILLAN PUBLISHING INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · 99.99% · New Delhi, India
  - Feiwel and Friends Subsidiary
  - Figshare Subsidiary
  - Flatiron Books Subsidiary · United States
  - Kingfisher Books Subsidiary
  - Macmillan Audio Subsidiary · United States
  - Macmillan London Subsidiary
  - Macmillan Nig. Publishers Ltd. Subsidiary · Lagos, Nigeria
  - Mantle Subsidiary
  - Red Globe Press Subsidiary
  - Square Fish Subsidiary
  - St. Martin's Publishing Group Subsidiary
  - Tor UK Subsidiary
- Springer Nature Subsidiary · 53% · Berlin, Germany
  - Apress Subsidiary · New York City
  - BioMed Central Subsidiary · London
  - J.B. Metzler Subsidiary · Stuttgart, Germany
  - Macmillan Education Subsidiary · London
  - Nature Portfolio Subsidiary · London
  - Prensa Científica Subsidiary
  - Springer Medizin Subsidiary · Berlin, Germany
  - Springer Nature (Netherlands) Subsidiary · Dordrecht, Netherlands
  - Springer Nature America Subsidiary · New York City
  - Springer Science+Business Media Subsidiary · Luxembourg
    - Birkhäuser Subsidiary · Basel
    - Bohn Stafleu van Loghum Subsidiary · Houten, Netherlands
    - Codes Rousseau Subsidiary · Les Sables-d'Olonne, France
    - Springer (New Zealand) Subsidiary · Auckland, New Zealand
    - Springer Berlin Heidelberg Subsidiary
    - Springer Gabler Subsidiary · Wiesbaden
    - Springer India Subsidiary · New Delhi, India
    - Springer Vieweg Verlag Subsidiary · Wiesbaden
    - Current Medicine Group Subsidiary
    - Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Subsidiary · United States
    - Springer Italy Subsidiary · Italy
    - Springer New York Subsidiary
    - Springer US Subsidiary
    - Springer-Verlag New York Subsidiary
  - Springer VS Subsidiary · Wiesbaden
  - SPRINGER NATURE CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER GMBH Subsidiary · 100% · Heidelberg, Germany
  - ASA Press Subsidiary · Switzerland
  - Scientific American Subsidiary
  - Springer Healthcare Subsidiary · United Kingdom
  - Springer Nature (China) Subsidiary · China
  - Springer Nature Limited Subsidiary · London, United Kingdom
  - Springer Nature Switzerland AG Subsidiary · Switzerland
  - SPRINGER NATURE TWO GMBH Subsidiary · Berlin, Germany
    - SPRINGER NATURE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH Subsidiary · 100% · Berlin, Germany
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  - Springer Vienna Subsidiary
  - SPRINGER-VERLAG GMBH Subsidiary · Vienna, Austria
  - SPRINGER-VERLAG GMBH Subsidiary · Berlin, Germany
  - SpringerOpen Subsidiary · Switzerland
  - STAMPDEW LIMITED Subsidiary · London, United Kingdom
- Argon Verlag Subsidiary · Berlin, Germany
- Digital Science Subsidiary · London
  - metaphacts Subsidiary · Walldorf, Germany
  - Altmetric Subsidiary · United Kingdom
  - Dimensions Subsidiary
  - Ontopic Subsidiary
- Droemer Knaur Subsidiary · Munich
  - Schneekluth Verlag Subsidiary · Munich, Germany
- Henry Holt and Company Subsidiary · New York City
  - Metropolitan Books Subsidiary · United States
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch Subsidiary · Cologne
  - Galiani Verlag Subsidiary · Berlin, Germany
- Macmillan Learning Subsidiary · New York City
- NetDoktor Subsidiary · Munich, Germany
- Picador Subsidiary · London
- Prognos AG Subsidiary · Basel
- Rowohlt Verlag Subsidiary · Hamburg
- S. Fischer Verlag Subsidiary · Frankfurt am Main
  - Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag Subsidiary · Frankfurt, Germany
  - Tor Online (Germany) Subsidiary
- ZEIT Sprachen Subsidiary · Planegg, Germany
- Zeitverlag Subsidiary · Hamburg, Germany
- DIGITAL SCIENCE UK LIMITED Subsidiary · 88% · London, United Kingdom
- Die Zeit Subsidiary · Germany
- Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (United States) Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
- Neobooks Subsidiary · Germany

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The story

Founded by John C. Farrar in 1946.¹

Founding

Farrar, Straus, and Company was founded in 1945 by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. The first book was Yank: The G.I. Story of the War, a compilation of articles that appeared in Yank, the Army Weekly, then There Were Two Pirates, a novel by James Branch Cabell.

The first years of existence were rough until they published the diet book Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser in 1950. The book went on to sell 500,000 copies and Straus said that the book carried them along for a while. In the early years, Straus and his wife Dorothea, went prospecting for books in Italy. It was there that they found the memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi and other rising Italian authors: Alberto Moravia, Giovannino Guareschi and Cesare Pavese. Farrar, Straus also poached or lured away authors from other publishers—one was Edmund Wilson, who was unhappy with Random House at the time but remained with Farrar, Straus for the remainder of his career.

In 1950, the name changed to Farrar, Straus & Young (for Stanley Young, a playwright, author (at Farrar & Rinehart), a literary critic for The New York Times, and an original stockholder and board member).

Name history

Farrar, Straus, and Company (1945–1951)

Farrar, Straus and Young (1950–1956)

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1953–1963) – acquired L.C. Page & Co. in 1957

Farrar, Straus, and Company (1963–1964) after Cudahy left the firm.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1964–present)

From Wikipedia’s article on Farrar, Straus and Giroux, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Leadership

Who has led Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

FounderJohn C. Farrar¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Macmillan Publishers

Owners

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group since 1993

Subsidiaries

MCD | Farrar, Straus and Giroux
North Point Press
Sarah Crichton Books

From Wikidata.¹

Acquisitions

In 1953, Pellegrini & Cudahy merged with Farrar, Straus & Young.

Robert Giroux joined the company in 1955, and after he later became a partner, the name was changed to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Giroux had been working for Harcourt and had been angered when Harcourt refused to allow him to publish Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Giroux brought many literary authors with him including Thomas Merton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Peter Taylor, Randall Jarrell, T.S. Eliot, and Bernard Malamud. Alan Williams described Giroux's "Pied Piper sweep" as "almost certainly the greatest number of authors to follow, on their own initiative, a single editor from house to house in the history of modern publishing." In 1964, Straus named Giroux chairman of the board and officially added Giroux's name to the publishing company.