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F. J. Schulte and Company	Francis J. Schulte founded his publishing firm in Chicago in 1889. The firm went out of existence around 1900. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 411.	2009
Faber & Faber, Inc.	Faber & Faber, Inc., also known as Faber & Faber (USA), is a completely separate company from its original British parent Faber & Faber Ltd. Faber & Faber, Inc. was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1998 and is now part of the Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com. For the independent British company see www.faber.co.uk.	2008
Farmer, Brace and Company	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Farrar & Rinehart	The publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart was founded by John Farrar, Stanley Rinehart and Frederick Rinehart in 1929. In 1946 John Farrar left to found a new company (see the FOB entry for Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Farrar & Rinehart was renamed Rinehart. See the FOB entries for Rinehart and Company and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicate that the firm is now part of the Holt McDougal division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Farrar, Straus & Giroux	The publishing firm of Farrar, Straus & Company was founded by John Farrar and Roger Straus in 1946. The firm was renamed Farrar, Straus & Young and then Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Fayard	Arthème Fayard 1er founded his publishing house in Paris in 1857. The business remained largely a family concern until it was bought by Hachette in 1958. Fayard remains a separate company under the Hachette umbrella. See www.hachette.com and www.editions-fayard.fr.	2008
Fields, Osgood and Company	Fields, Osgood and Company was formed in Boston in 1868 when James T. Fields, James Ripley Osgood and John S. Clark purchased Howard Ticknor's share in Ticknor and Fields. The firm ceased to exist in 1870 when Fields retired and was replaced as a partner by Benjamin Ticknor. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 400, and see the FOB entries for Ticknor and Fields; James R. Osgood and Company; Houghton, Osgood and Company; and Ticknor and Company. All of these firms are regarded as predecessor firms of Houghton Mifflin. See the Company History page of www.hmco.com.	2009
Financial and Mining News	The Financial and Mining News was founded by Harry Marks in 1884. It was merged with its rival newspaper the Financial Times in 1946. The Financial Times is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com.	2007
Fox, Duffield and Company	The publishing firm of Fox, Duffield and Company was founded by Rector Fox and Pitts Duffield in New York in 1903. Fox retired in 1906, and the firm became known first as Duffield and Company and then as Duffield and Green. See the FOB entry for Duffield and Green and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 131.	2008
Frank Starr & Co.	Frank Starr & Co. was an imprint of Beadle & Co. (Beadle and Adams) in the late 1870s. See the FOB entry for Beadle and Adams.	2013

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