St. Martin's Press
Headquartered in the legendary
Flatiron Building in
New York City,
St. Martin's Press is one of the
United States' largest
publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press (mainstream and bestseller
books),
St. Martin's Griffin (mainstream paperback books, including
romance),
St. Martin's Minotaur (
mystery,
suspense, and
thrillers),
Picador (specialty books),
Thomas Dunne Books (
suspense and mainstream), and
Truman Talley Books (business and speciality books).
Macmillan Publishers of
Great Britain founded St. Martin's in 1952 and subsequently sold it to
Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, a group of publishing companies held by
Verlagsgruppe George von Holtzbrinck, a family-owned publishing concern based in
Stuttgart,
Germany, which still owns St. Martin's as well as other U.S. publishers, including
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (primarily a publisher of literary fiction),
Holt Publishers (literary non-fiction), and
Tor-Forge Books (
science fiction,
fantasy, and
thrillers).
Saluted for the breadth of their list, St. Martin's publishes such authors as
Dan Brown,
Ken Bruen,
Stephen J. Cannell,
Jennifer Cruisie,
Janet Evanovich,
Julian Fellowes,
Joseph Finder,
Frederick Forsyth,
Joan Hess,
Simon Kernick,
Robert Ludlum,
Gayle Lynds,
Michael Palmer,
Robin Pilcher,
Wilbur Smith, the
New York Times crossword puzzle books,
James Herriot,
Barbara Taylor Bradford,
Patrick Quinlan, and others.
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St. Martin's Press
