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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Type	Book Publisher
Founded	1986
Founder	Nigel Newton
Headquarters	London, England 36 Soho Square, London W1D 3QY
Revenue	£100 miliion
Website	http://www.bloomsbury.com/

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is an independent, London-based publishing house known for literary novels. It was named Publisher of the Year in 1999 and 2000. Bloomsbury's growth over the past few years is mainly due to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... For the sequel to the computer game Entrepreneur, which has no article of it own, see The Corporate Machine. ... Nigel Newton is the chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc who was instrumental in the publication of the J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series in 1997. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total... For the tax agency in the United Kingdom of the same name, see HM Revenue and Customs. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Harry Potter series of novels. ... Joanne Jo Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965[1]) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. ...

The wonderfull company was founded in 1986 by Nigel Newton, who had previously been employed by other publishing companies. It was floated as a public registered company in 1995, raising £5.5million, which was used to fund expansion of the company into paperback and children's book. A rights issue of shares in 1998 raised a further £6.1m which was used to expand the company, in particular to found an American branch of the company. In 2000 Bloomsbury acquired A&C Black Plc, and in 2002 acquired Whitakers Almanack. This was followed by further acquisitions. Nigel Newton is the chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc who was instrumental in the publication of the J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series in 1997. ...

Imprints

• A & C Black
  • Christopher Helm Publishers
  • Pica Press
  • T & A D Poyser
• Berlin Verlag
• Bloomsbury
• Bloomsbury USA
• Walker & Company

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Authors whose work is published

Noted authors published by the company include: An author is any person(s) or entity(s) that originates and assumes responsibility for an expression or communication. ...

• Margaret Atwood
• John Berger
• Benjamin Cheever
• Susanna Clarke
• Nora Ephron
• Carlos Fuentes
• William Goldman
• Nadine Gordimer
• David Halberstam
• Patricia Highsmith
• JT LeRoy
• Jay McInerney
• Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
• Michael Ondaatje
• J. K. Rowling
• Edward Said
• Ben Schott
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Lord Whimsy

For a more comprehensive list, see List of authors published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter, and author. ... Benjamin Hale Cheever, son of John Cheever, has been a reporter for daily newspapers and an editor at Readers Digest. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 with a Hugo award Susanna Clarke (b. ... Nora Ephron Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. ... Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. ... William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. ... David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. ... 1962 publicity photo of Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. ... Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy is the name used by an American author who originally published as Terminator and later JT LeRoy. ... Jay McInerney (born in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut and christened John Barrett McInerney, Jr. ... Bahiyyih Nakhjavani is a Persian writer educated in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (born 12 September 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient. ... Joanne Jo Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965[1]) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. ... Edward Wadie Saïd (Arabic: , transliteration: ; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. ... Ben Schott is a widely acknowledged British writer and author of the highly successful Schotts Original Miscellany series. ... Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. ... Allen Crawford Victor Allen Crawford III (born March 22, 1968), better known by the sobriquet Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy, is an author, graphic designer, and illustrator. ... This is a list of authors published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ...

External links

• Bloomsbury Homepage