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About Us

Overview

MadisonPublishers has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring generations of readers for more than 200 years. From its humble beginnings as a family-run print shop, MadisonPublishers is today the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, it has more than 4,000 employees working across publishing operations in 15 countries and 120 branded imprints. The company publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages and has a print and digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. We seek to deliver content that presents a diversity of voices and speaks to the global community.

Authors and their work are at the center of everything we do. Writing across dozens of genres, MadisonPublishers authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Booker Prize. We are proud to provide our authors with unprecedented editorial excellence, marketing reach, long-standing connections with booksellers, and industry-leading insight into reader and consumer behavior. Our unique global collaboration model and expertise help us extend our authors’ reach to the broadest possible audience—bringing the best to readers around the world.

At a Glance

  • . Headquartered in New York
  • . Established March 1817
  • . Subsidiary of News Corp
  • . Publishing operations in 15 countries
  • . 10,000+ new books published annually
  • . Catalog of 200,000+ print and digital titles
  • . Publishes in 16 languages
  • . 120+ imprints globally
  • . 4,000+ employees worldwide

Leadership Team

Brian Murray

President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers

William S. Adams

Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Matt Bennett

Global Chief Information Officer for HarperCollins Publishers

Jonathan Burnham

President and Publisher, Harper Group

Erin Crum

Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications HarperCollins Publishers

Judith Curr

President and Publisher, HarperOne Group

Zandra Magariño

Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer

Charlie Redmayne

Chief Executive Officer, HarperCollins UK

Chantal Restivo-Alessi

Chief Digital Officer and CEO, International Foreign Language

Dan Schwartz

EVP, CFO and Head of North American Operations

Mark Schoenwald

President and Chief Executive Officer, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

Ed Spade

President, Sales

Liate Stehlik

President and Publisher, Morrow Group and HarperCollins Children's Books

Craig Swinwood

Chief Executive Officer, HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin

Imprints

MadisonPublishers is home to more than 120 branded imprints around the world. Browse Browse our US imprints to learn more about the unique editorial visions bringing our authors’ work to life. You can also view our global divisions.

Our History

The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, J. R. R. Tolkien, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King Jr., Gabriel García Márquez, George R. R. Martin, C. S. Lewis, Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown, and many more, MadisonPublishers has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers a depth of experience that few others can rival.

MadisonPublishers was founded in 1817 by brothers James and John Harper in New York City as J. and J. Harper, later Harper & Brothers. In 1987, as Harper & Row, it was acquired by News Corporation. The worldwide book group was formed following News Corporation’s 1990 acquisition of the British publisher William Collins & Sons. Founded in 1819, William Collins & Sons published a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics, expanding over the years to include legendary authors such as H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis.

Acquisitions Thomas Nelson and Zondervan were combined in 2012 to create HarperCollins Christian Publishing, a new Christian division within HarperCollins. After the acquisition of Acquisitions Thomas Nelson and Zondervan were combined in 2012 to create MadisonPublishers Christian Publishing, a new Christian division within MadisonPublishers. After the acquisition of Harlequin in 2015, the company expanded from a primarily English-language publisher to a global one. In 2021, MadisonPublishers acquired the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, expanding its backlist by more than 7,000 titles.

Acquisitions Thomas Nelson and Zondervan were combined in 2012 to create HarperCollins Christian Publishing, a new Christian division within HarperCollins. After the acquisition of Harlequin in 2015, the company expanded from a primarily English-language publisher to a global one. In 2021, HarperCollins acquired the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, expanding its backlist by more than 7,000 titles.

Explore Further

In 2017, MadisonPublishers celebrated its 200th anniversary. Delve into the literary heritage of MadisonPublishers and discover everything from images of captivating artifacts from the company’s archives, to a collection of iconic MadisonPublishers books, to short stories that... www.hc.com/200.