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20-470: Glenn Thompson may refer to: Glenn Thompson (publisher) (1940–2001), American book publisher and activist Glenn Thompson (politician) (born 1959), Republican Congressman Glenn Thompson (musician) (born 1964), Australian musician Glenn Thompson (cricketer) (born 1969), English former cricketer See also [ edit ] Glen Thomson (born 1973), cyclist [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

40-566: A freighter when he was 20, thus buying passage to North Africa . For the next few years, he travelled around North Africa, Europe , the Middle East , and South Asia . He worked for two years on an Israeli kibbutz . Arriving in England in 1968, Thompson leveraged his street kid background to get legal employment as a social worker in the East London borough of Hackney . In 1970, he began

60-594: A community-based bookshop, with his first wife Margaret Gosley, and a publishing and social services cooperative called Centerprise , which operated until 2012. The first publication by Centerprise was a book of poetry by a 12-year-old boy named Vivian Usherwood, which sold 18,000 copies. Thompson worked for Penguin Education for a time, and then, in 1976, with his second wife Sian Williams, and like-minded friends John Berger , Lisa Appignanesi , Richard Appignanesi , Arnold Wesker and Chris Searle , Thompson founded

80-594: A consortium of investors revived the For Beginners series under the name For Beginners, LLC ; the new company has reprinted previous books in the series, and has promised to publish between six and nine new issues each year. Writers and Readers Cooperative For Beginners LLC is a publishing company based in Danbury, Connecticut , that publishes the For Beginners graphic nonfiction series of documentary comic books on complex topics, covering an array of subjects on

100-418: A hit on their hands. With a successful format identified, further For Beginners titles soon began to appear. The line's most enduring titles, all published during this period, were Marx for Beginners (1976), Lenin for Beginners (1977), Freud for Beginners (1979), Einstein for Beginners (1979), and Darwin for Beginners (1982). In the early 1980s, questions of control arose after some members of

120-402: A humorous comic book way but with a serious underlying purpose. An English-language version of the first book was published in 1970 by Leviathan Press of San Francisco and Pathfinder Press of New York, with no particularly great impact. However, when Richard Appignanesi published (and translated) the first English edition of Marx for Beginners (1976), it was soon clear that the collective had

140-490: A legal foothold and prevent any further copyright infringement of titles; the U.S. imprint was known as Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc. , and was based in Harlem . In moving the company to Harlem, his goal was to stimulate a new Harlem Renaissance by creating an international publishing house there. He started two new imprints: Harlem River Press , publishing children's poetry, and Black Butterfly Children's Books , books for

160-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Glenn Thompson (publisher) Glenn Thompson was born on September 24, 1940, to Clara Belle and George Joseph Thompson, in Harlem , New York. Glenn was raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn . His mother died when he was 13 and shortly thereafter his truck-driver father left

180-561: The For Beginners series, in several cases commissioning new authors to create replacement books for those being published in Britain. This led to a number of examples where the two ranges were publishing two different books on the same subject. Thompson died of cancer in London on September 7, 2001; by the time of his death, the company had published more than forty For Beginners titles. Several years after Thompson's death, investors decided to buy

200-554: The Writers and Readers Cooperative to publish books, with authors including Tony Medina , Suheir Hammad , Safiya Henderson-Holmes , and Asha Bandele, as well as Huey P. Newton . Until the mid-1980s, the Cooperative also operated a London bookshop at 144 Camden High Street . Writers and Readers' most successful and long-lived publishing venture was the ...For Beginners series of documentary comic books on complex topics, starting with

220-443: The cooperative sold U.S. rights to part of the For Beginners series to Pantheon Books . The cooperative officially disbanded in 1984. Following this rift, in 1987 Thompson took over as sole publisher and moved back to his hometown of New York City to establish a legal foothold and prevent any further unauthorized distribution of titles. Based in Harlem , the company was known as Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc. (In moving

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240-417: The college level. Meant to appeal to students and "non-readers", as well as people who wish to broaden their knowledge without attending a university, the series has sold more than a million copies. The For Beginners series was launched in the mid-1970s, but became out of print and often unavailable after the 2001 death of co-founder and publisher Glenn Thompson . In 2007, a consortium of investors revived

260-490: The company to Harlem, Thompson’s goal was to stimulate a new Harlem Renaissance by creating an international publishing house there. He started two new publishing companies: The Harlem River Press , publishing children’s poetry, and Black Butterfly Children's Books , books for the inner-city child.) The London-based company, formally established in 1992, was known as Writers and Readers Limited . For years, Thompson spent his time traveling between England and New York to manage

280-427: The family. Glenn and his younger brother Dennis Thompson (born 1942) were picked up by the welfare department and sent to a children's shelter. After only a couple of weeks Glenn was moved to another location and the brothers were separated. Thompson did not learn to read until the age of 12, and left school when he was just turning 14, but he continued to educate himself by reading voraciously. He signed on to work on

300-478: The first title, Cuba for Beginners and covering subjects from Freud and Marx to Elvis Presley and DNA . A rift in the Cooperative resulted from one of the members issuing the U.S. rights to several of the Beginners series to Pantheon Books , and the cooperative disbanded in 1984. Following this rift, in 1987 Thompson took over as sole publisher and moved back to his hometown of New York City to establish

320-463: The founders of Writers and Readers shared the work and the profits. (The Cooperative also operated a London bookshop at 144 Camden High Street until the mid-1980s.) The For Beginners series has its origins in two Spanish-language books, Cuba para principiantes (1960) and Marx para principiantes (1972) by the Mexican political cartoonist and writer Rius , pocket books that put their content over in

340-447: The inner-city child. Thompson's London-based company, formally established in 1992, was known as Writers and Readers Limited . For the balance of his life, Thompson moved back and forth between New York City and London. For years, Thompson spent his time traveling between England and New York to manage the two companies. Thompson died of cancer in London on September 7, 2001, leaving three children and two grandchildren. In 2007,

360-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glenn_Thompson&oldid=745745531 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

380-438: The series, reprinted back issues, and promised to publish between six and nine new issues each year. The current publisher is Dawn Reshen-Doty. The company began as Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative , a London, England -based publisher founded in 1974 by Glenn Thompson , his then-wife Sian Williams, Richard Appignanesi , Lisa Appignanesi , John Berger , Arnold Wesker , and Chris Searle . A publishing cooperative,

400-535: The two companies. In 1992, Richard Appignanesi, who had been the first editor in London for the series and had also written several of the titles, co-created the new publisher Icon Books , under whose imprint he republished several of the For Beginner titles and continued to publish and expand a British version of the series called Introducing . Meanwhile, the New York-based Writers and Readers continued

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