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John Bioren	John Bioren began his publishing career with the firm of Mountford, Bioren and Company in Philadelphia in 1794. In 1795 he went into partnership with Patrick Madan to form Bioren and Madan, and from 1797 he traded under his own name only. Bioren died in 1835 and his firm went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 52.	2009
John Bradburn	John Bradburn founded his publishing firm in New York in 1861. The firm went out of existence in 1866. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 63.	2009
John C. Winston Company	The publishing firm of John C. Winston Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1884. In 1959-1960 it merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and Rinehart and Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2009
John Camden Hotten	John Camden Hotten ran a printing and publishing firm which published works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Whitman and others from the 1850s to the 1870s. Hotten died in 1873, and his firm was absorbed into Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd.	2008
John Day Company	The John Day Company was a publishing house founded in New York in 1926. In 1968 the firm was acquired by Intext, Inc. See the FOB entry for Intext, which indicates that any surviving rights of the John Day Company will now belong to the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2008
John Farquharson Ltd	The literary agency John Farquharson Ltd became a partner-firm of Curtis Brown (UK) and is now a part of the Curtis Brown Group Limited. See www.curtisbrown.co.uk.	2008
John H. Hopkins and Son	John H. Hopkins founded his publishing firm in New York in 1934. Hopkins died in July 1939, and the firm had gone out of business by the time his son Irving G. Hopkins entered the army in 1942. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 191.	2008
John Kenedy and Son	John Kenedy founded his publishing firm in Baltimore in 1826. In 1838 the business moved to New York. John Kenedy died in 1866. The firm was then run by his son Patrick John Kenedy, first as P. J. Kenedy (1866-1904) and then as P. J. Kenedy and Sons. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 237-239, and see the FOB entry for P. J. Kenedy and Sons.	2009
John Lehmann Ltd	John Lehmann left the Hogarth Press and set up his own firm in 1946. John Lehmann Ltd was always in financial difficulties and in 1947 Purnell & Sons took over full financial control, with John Lehmann as salaried managing director. In 1952, financial disagreements between Purnell and Lehmann led to the closure of the firm. See the entry in WATCH for John Lehmann. Any surviving rights, however, are likely to have passed to Purnell & Sons.	2006
John Long Ltd	The publishing firm of John Long Ltd had a long association with Hutchinson and was eventually absorbed into the Hutchinson Group. In the 1920s and 1930s John Long Ltd was "incorporated with Hutchinson & Co.". By the 1940s it was described as "member of the Hutchinson Group", and by the 1960s had become "an imprint of the Hutchinson Group". The name of John Long Ltd ceased to be used around 1979. See the FOB entry for Hutchinson, which indicates that the firm is now part of Random House UK, which in turn is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008

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