34 American publisher (people) stubs

Robert Allbritton is the owner and founder of Capitol News Company, the parent company of Capitol Hill political newspaper and website Politico.

Lynn John Arnold (1864-1920), was an American bank president, publisher, lawyer, and a judge. In 1911 he was the publisher of the Knickerbocker Press.

Alfred Horatio Belo was the founder of The Dallas Morning News newspaper in Dallas, Texas, along with business partner George Bannerman Dealey. The company A. H. Belo Corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, was named in his honor.

Charles Nikki Brown was an American publishing editor, the co-founder and editor of Locus, the long-running news and reviews magazine covering the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature. Brown was born on June 24, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended City College until 1956, when he joined the military at age 18; Brown served in the United States Navy for three years. Following his discharge from navy service, he went to work as a nuclear engineer but later on changed careers and entered the publishing field; Brown became a full-time science fiction editor with Locus in 1975.

James Brown was an American publisher and co-founder of Little, Brown and Company.

Dan Buckley is an American comic books executive, currently President of Marvel Entertainment.

Thomas J. Caystile, known as T.J. Caystile (1848–1884), was an American, printer and newspaperman, who, with his partners, Jesse Yarnell and S. J. Mathes, founded the Los Angeles Mirror and later took over the Los Angeles Daily Times, later to be known as the Los Angeles Times.

Alfred Cowles Sr. (1832–1889) was an American businessperson and newspaper publisher. During the 1860s to 1880s he was bookkeeper, treasurer and business manager of the Chicago Tribune of which he was part owner.

Edwin Cowles (1825–1890), born in Austinburg, Ohio, was notable as the publisher of The Cleveland Leader. During the President Abraham Lincoln administration and Civil War, he was appointed as US postmaster of Cleveland, serving April 4, 1861 - July 11, 1865. He later served as Vice-President of the 1884 Republican National Convention. He was the elder brother of Alfred Cowles, Sr., also a newspaper publisher.

Stephen Daye, Sr. was the first British North American printer.

Tom Doherty is an American publisher and the founder of the science fiction and fantasy book publisher Tor Books. After working as a book salesman in the 1950s and 1960s, Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972. In 1975, he became, in addition to publisher of another company also owned by Grosset & Dunlap, the science fiction imprint Ace Books. In 1980, he left Ace to establish his own company Tor Books.

Morgan Entrekin is the president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Inc. Books in New York City. He is one of six owners of the publishing company.

Daniel Fowle was an American printer before and during the American Revolution, and the founder of The New Hampshire Gazette.

Arthur Corbin Gould (1850–1903) was an avid shooter and member of the Massachusetts Rifle Association. He published "The Rifle" [Riling 1160] in 1885. "The Rifle" was the forerunner to the official publication of the National Rifle Association "The Rifleman", later "American Rifleman". Mr. Gould later authored "The Modern American Pistol and Revolver, including a description of modern pistols and revolvers of American make; ammunition used in these arms; results accomplished; and shooting rules followed by American marksmen" as well as "Modern American Rifles". The former was the first English-language book devoted to pistol shooting.

Wayne Sanger Green II was an American publisher, writer, and consultant. Green was editor of CQ magazine before he went on to found 73, 80 Micro, Byte, CD Review, Cold Fusion, Kilobaud Microcomputing, RUN, InCider, and Pico, as well as publishing books and running Instant Software.

Alfred Harcourt was an American publisher and compiler who co-founded Harcourt, Brace & Howe in 1919.

Thomas William Herringshaw was an American journalist, publisher, genealogist and biographical author, best known for editing and publishing biographical reference works.

Henry Hoyt was a publisher and bookseller at No. 9 Cornhill, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, active from 1850 until 1876. He specialized in juvenile and popular religious works, such as the Sunday School Journal and the Child's Companion and Youth's Friend. The firm was eventually succeeded at the same location by Ira Bradley & Co., which became Bradley & Woodruff.

George Jones was an American journalist who, with Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founded the New-York Daily Times, now The New York Times.

Kathryn "Kathy" Keeton was an American magazine publisher along with her partner, and later husband, Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione.

Mitchell Kennerley was an English born American publisher, editor, and gallery owner.

Charles Hope Kerr, a son of abolitionists, was a vegetarian and Unitarian in 1886 when he established Charles H. Kerr & Co. in Chicago.

Frances Lear was an American activist, magazine publisher, editor and writer.

Andrew McNally was an American publisher and co-founder of the company Rand McNally. Born in Armagh, Ireland, McNally immigrated to New York City in 1857. A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William Rand at a wage of $9 per week. Rand and McNally became business partners and incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. in 1868, becoming one of the largest and best-known map publishers in history. After Rand retired in 1899, McNally was president until his unexpected death from pneumonia in 1904 at his winter home in Altadena, California. For nearly 100 years the company was majority owned and headed by several generations of the McNally family. In 1997, the family divested its majority stake for a reported $500 million.

Jane Metcalfe is the co-founder, with Louis Rossetto, and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of the magazine Wired. Prior to that, Metcalfe managed advertising sales for the Amsterdam-based Electric Word magazine. She and Rossetto co-founded TCHO chocolates. Metcalfe is life-partners with Rossetto and they have two children.

Alexander Pollock Moore was an American diplomat, editor and publisher. Born in Pittsburgh on November 10, 1867, he was the publisher/owner of the Pittsburgh Leader when he married the stage actress Lillian Russell, becoming her fourth husband. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania in 1916.

Jon Parrish Peede is an American book editor and literary review publisher, currently serving as the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Ralph Lane Polk (1849–1923) was an American compiler of facts and publisher of directories. Born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, Polk was educated at the Pennington School, New Jersey. He became a successful Detroit publisher and president of R.L. Polk & Co. He belonged to the Association of North American Directory Publishers. His son, Ralph Lane Polk Jr., was a later president of the company which was acquired by IHS Inc. on July 15, 2013.

William Henry Rand was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, As a young man, he was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September 1849, by the California Gold Rush. He settled in Los Angeles and co-founded the state's first newspaper, the Los Angeles Star. In 1856, he returned to Boston for a short time before moving to Chicago and opening a print shop in June of that year. Two years later he hired an Irish immigrant, Andrew McNally, to work in his shop for $9 per week. The two formally established Rand, McNally & Co. in 1868 and became one of the biggest and best-known map publishers in history. Rand retired as president of Rand McNally in 1899 and returned to his boyhood home of East Milton, Massachusetts. He died in New Canaan, Connecticut at his daughter's home after being ill for some time.

Rufus Napoleon Rhodes was the founder and managing editor of the Birmingham News from 1888 until his death.

Charles Carroll Soule was an American bookman with a side specialty in the architecture of libraries. Born in Boston to Richard Soule, Jr. (1812–1877) and Harriet Winsor (1816–1905) he attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard College (1862), and fought in the Civil War. After the war he engaged in public speaking about post-slavery reconciliation in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.

John William Sweeterman (1907–1998) was an American newspaperman who was publisher of The Washington Post from 1961 to 1968, and who helped engineer the Post's 1954 acquisition of the Washington Times-Herald, which improved the Post's struggling financial situation. Born in Celina, Ohio, he attended the University of Dayton and started at the Dayton Journal-Herald as an office boy, eventually becoming the vice president and general manager. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1950 to work for the Post where he became business manager and then general manager under owner and publisher Phil Graham. Sweeterman became publisher in 1961 until his retirement in 1968, when he persuaded then owner Katharine Graham to take over the role of publisher. He served as vice chairman of the Washington Post Company from 1968 to 1971. He also was a director of the American Security and Trust Company and president of the Community Welfare Council. He received an honorary degree from Saint Joseph's College, Indiana, in 1969.

Orville James Victor was an American writer and editor in chief.

Adam Willis Wagnalls was an American publisher. He was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1877.