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Syngress Publishing	The firm of Syngress Publishing was founded by Chris Williams and Amy Pedersen in 1997. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2008
The Critic	The Critic was a New York-based magazine of literary criticism published beginning in 1881. In 1884 the magazine merged with Good Literature to become The Critic and Good Literature and started a new series. The title reverted to The Critic that same year. In 1906, the magazine was absorbed into a new incarnation of Putnam's Monthly, which was titled Putnam's Monthly and The Critic for its initial issues. A small collection of responses from 26 American authors to the question “Has America Produced a Poet?” solicited by The Critic’s editors is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Thomas Seltzer, Inc.	The publishing firm of Scott and Seltzer was founded in New York in 1919 by Temple Scott and Thomas Seltzer. In 1920 Scott left and the firm continued as Thomas Seltzer, Inc. The firm became the publisher of D. H. Lawrence, E. E. Cummings and Marcel Proust, but was pursued by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and came close to bankruptcy. In 1926 the firm's publishing business was acquired by Albert and Charles Boni, who continued with occasional use of the Seltzer imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 54-57 and see the FOB entry for Albert and Charles Boni.	2008
Thorp Springs Press	Writer and publisher Paul Foreman founded Thorp Springs Press in 1971 in Berkeley, California. Foreman and his family moved to Austin, Texas, in 1979 opening the Brazos Book Shop. After publishing nearly 100 books and two journals, Hyperion and Tawté, Foreman closed the bookshop and Thorp Springs Press ceased operations in the early 1990s. Paul Foreman died in 2012.	2025
Thunder's Mouth	Thunder's Mouth was a specialist publisher and an imprint of Avalon. Following the acquisition of Avalon by the Perseus Books Group in 2007, the Thunder's Mouth imprint was closed down. See www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Turpin Distribution Services	Turpin Distribution Services was a book distribution firm closely associated with the Royal Society of Chemistry and other learned societies. In March 2000 Turpin Distribution Services was acquired by Swets & Zeitlinger. See Hazel Bell: 'Personalities in publishing: Gervase Muller', Journal of scholarly publishing (April 2002). See also the FOB entry for Swets & Zeitlinger.	2008
Union School Furnishing Company	Union School Furnishing Company was based in Chicago between about 1909 and about 1923. The company occasionally published books with the imprint Union School Library. See the Lucile Project entry at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile.	2009
W. B. Saunders	The publishing firm of W. B. Saunders was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 by Walter Burns Saunders. By the 1980s W. B. Saunders was operating as a joint imprint with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (see the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company). Harcourt, Brace & Company was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1998, and W. B. Saunders became part of Elsevier Health. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 W. B. Saunders remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com and www.us.elsevierhealth.com.	2008
W. Green & Son	The Scottish legal publishing firm of W. Green & Son was acquired by Sweet & Maxwell in 1956. Sweet & Maxwell in turn was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 1987, and now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.wgreen.co.uk.	2006
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

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