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Greenhaven Press	Greenhaven Press was founded in the 1970s as the publisher of Opposing Viewpoints. The firm was purchased in 2000 by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com.	2006
Greenwillow Books	Greenwillow Books was founded in 1974 as an autonomous children's book division of William Morrow & Company. The founding editor was Susan Hirschman. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. Greenwillow continues to be used as an imprint by HarperCollins.	2008
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.	Greenwood Press was founded as an academic and educational publisher in 1967. The firm was acquired in 1969 by Williamhouse-Regency, then by Congressional Information Service and then by Elsevier (later Reed Elsevier). In 1996 the Greenwood Publishing Group merged with Heinemann Publishing to create Greenwood-Heinemann, which later became part of Harcourt Education. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. Greenwood Publishing Group (including Heinemann USA) later became part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and then ABC-CLIO. See www.abc-clio.com/greenwood-authors.	2020
Gregg Publishing Company	John Robert Gregg (1867-1948) invented his own shorthand system and published books about it. Gregg Publishing Company was formed for this purpose, in Chicago. In 1948 the firm was acquired by the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. There have been several other small firms called Gregg Publishing, including one based in Haywards Heath, UK.	2008
Grenville Press	Grenville Press was the original name of Scolar Press. See the FOB entry for Scolar Press.	2007
Grossman Publishers	Grossman Publishers was founded in New York in 1962 by Richard L. Grossman. In 1968 the firm was acquired by Viking Press (see 'Publishers' Weekly', 16 September 1968). Grossman continued as a Viking imprint until 1984. See the FOB entry for Viking (now part of the Pearson Group) and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168.	2008
Grove Press	Grove Press was founded in New York in 1951 by Barney J. Rosset Jr. In 1985 the firm was acquired by Ann Getty and George Weidenfield and became known first as Grove Weidenfeld (q.v.) and then as Grove Nicolson. In 1993 the firm was merged with Atlantic Monthly Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com.	2008
Gulf Publishing	The firm of Gulf Publishing was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2001 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com.	2008
H. B. Pearson	H. B. Pearson founded his publishing firm in Cincinnati around 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1855. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009
H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss	The publishing firm of H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss was founded in Philadelphia in 1850 by Horace C. Peck and Theodore Bliss. The firm got into financial difficulties during the Civil War and the partnership was dissolved in 1862. After the war Peck and Bliss briefly formed their own separate firms, which have entries in FOB. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 356.	2009

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