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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Biography"Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Peace Prizes. The publisher is currently a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. In 1950, the name changed to Farrar, Straus & Young (for Stanley Young, a playwright, author (at Farrar & Rinehart,) a literary critic for the New York Times, and an original stockholder and board member) Robert Giroux joined the company in 1955, and after he later became a partner, the name was changed to Farrar, Straus and Giroux." --Wikipedia