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Ticknor, Reed and Fields	William D. Tickner was a partner in Allen and Ticknor (1832-1834). He then ran his own publishing company in Boston from 1834. In 1843 John Reed and James T. Fields became partners in the firm of William D. Ticknor and Company, and in 1849 the firm was renamed Ticknor, Reed and Fields. Reed withdrew from the company in 1854 and it continued initially as Ticknor and Fields. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 461-466, and see the FOB entry for Ticknor and Fields.	2009
Van Nostrand Reinhold	The publishing firm of Van Nostrand Reinhold (VNR) was acquired by Litton Industries in 1968, and then purchased by Thomson Publishing in 1981. In 1997 VNR was sold by Thomson to Wiley. See 'New York Times', 10 October 1997, and www.wiley.com.	2008
Wallace Literary Agency	Wallace, Aitken, & Sheil was founded in 1974 as a partnership between literary agents Gillon Aitken, Anthony Sheil, and Lois Wallace, with Wallace being the primary United States agent for the clients of the British agency, Anthony Sheil Associates, Ltd. The agency was changed in 1978 to the Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. when Aitken departed the partnership. The firm remained the Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. until 1988, when the partnership between Lois Wallace and Anthony Sheil was dissolved. At that time, the agency took its current name, the Wallace Literary Agency. From 1987 to 1998, Lois Wallace's husband, Tom Wallace, was an agent with the firm. The Wallace Literary Agency was jointly acquired by Robin Strauss and Andrew Nurnberg in 2014 who operate under the name Robin Straus Agency, Inc.	2025
Weekend Review	The Weekend Review was founded in 1930. In January 1934, it was incorporated into 'New Statesman', which was published for many years as 'New Statesman and Nation (incorporating The Weekend Review)'. See www.newstatesman.com/nsabout.htm.	2007
William R. Scott, Inc.	The publishing firm of William R. Scott, Inc. was founded in New York in 1938. In 1970 the firm was acquired by Addison-Wesley, which is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 329.	2008
William Rickey and Company	William Rickey and Company was a publishing company established in New York before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1913. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119.	2008
William Rider & Son	The publishing firm of William Rider & Son was founded in 1908. The firm was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Worthington Company	Richard Worthington founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1867, and moved it to New York in 1874. The firm was originally called R. Worthington & Co., and became Worthington Company in 1885. The firm was forced into receivership in 1893 and closed in 1894. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 499.	2009

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