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48-480: The prize was established by Nancy West, née Ackerley, sister of English author and editor J. R. Ackerley , and was first awarded in 1982. The prize is judged by the trustees of the J. R. Ackerley Trust; biographer and historian Peter Parker (Chair), the biographer and critic Claire Harman , and the writer and editor Michael Caines. There is no formal submission process for the award — judges simply "call in" books to be added to their longlist. Former judges include

96-700: A 40% stake in Collins since 1981 and became the sole owner in 1989. News Corp merged the two publishers in 1989, combining the name as HarperCollins and creating a logo with a stylized depiction of flames atop waves derived from the torch logo for Harper & Row and the fountain logo for Collins. In 1990, HarperCollins sold J. B. Lippincott & Co. , its medical publishing division, to the Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer . In 1996, HarperCollins sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins College to Pearson , which merged them with Addison-Wesley Longman . News Corporation purchased

144-541: A Nashville, Tennessee, warehouse, under the name Thomas Nelson (which distributes the religious arm of HarperCollins/Zondervan Books), in the winter of 2013. Several office positions and departments continued to work for HarperCollins in Scranton, but in a new location. The Scranton warehouse closing eliminated about 200 jobs, and the Nashville warehouse closing eliminated up to 500 jobs; the exact number of distribution employees

192-402: A podcast produced by the department, provides interviews with authors of noteworthy titles. HarperCollins announced HarperStudio in 2008 as a "new, experimental unit... that will eliminate the traditional profit distributions to authors. The long-established author advances and bookseller returns has not proved to be very profitable to either the author or the publisher. The approach HarperStudio

240-683: A significant move into fiction in 1917 under the leadership of Godfrey Collins . The Collins Crime Club imprint published many works in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction , including novels by Agatha Christie and Rex Stout . The religious imprint Fount would be home to C. S. Lewis . Collins would become the British Commonwealth publisher for a number of popular American juvenile series and authors, including The Hardy Boys , Nancy Drew , and Dr. Seuss . Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation acquired Harper & Row in 1987. News Corp had owned

288-575: Is a modest subtitle for such a daunting process of reconstruction and re-appraisal." The Last Veteran: Harry Patch and the Legacy of War was published by Fourth Estate on Armistice Day in 2009. Simon Heffer in The Daily Telegraph wrote, "A fine work of research and of history. Parker tells the story of how the War came to an end and how the aftermath was coped with." Parker's Housman Country: Into

336-448: Is a subsidiary of News Corp . The company's name is derived from a combination of the firm's predecessors. Harper & Brothers , founded in 1817, merged with Row, Peterson & Company in 1962 to form Harper & Row , which was acquired by News Corp in 1987. The Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons , founded in 1819, was acquired by News Corp in 1989 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for

384-546: Is divided in two volumes, 1945–1959 and 1960–1967 respectively. Matthew Parris , writing for the Spectator, described it as 'quite simply, a work of genius.' Parker was an associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) and remains an advisory editor for the regular updates to the project. Among the books to which Parker has contributed are Scribner 's British Writers (on L. P. Hartley , 2002),

432-517: Is now taking is to offer little or no advance, but instead to split the profit 50% (rather than the industry standard 15%), with the author." The division was headed by Bob Miller, previously the founding publisher of Hyperion , the adult books division of the Walt Disney Company . HarperStudio folded in March 2010 after Miller left for Workman Publishing . HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd.

480-482: Is set to rise to $ 50,000 by 2025. Additionally, full-time employees in the union will receive a lump sum payment of $ 1,500. The contract also allows workers making less than $ 60,000 to file for two hours of overtime pay per week without approval from a manager, and puts measures in place to compensate junior-level staff for diversity and inclusion work which is typically unpaid in the industry. The workers returned to their duties on February 21. HarperCollins maintains

528-401: Is the academic marketing department of HarperCollins. HarperAcademic provides instructors with the latest in adult titles for course adoption at the high school and college level, as well as titles for first-year and other common read programs at academic institutions. They also attend several major academic conferences to showcase new titles for academic professionals. HarperAcademic Calling ,

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576-561: Is the first lecture agency to be created by a major publishing house. It was launched in May 2005 as a division of HarperCollins to book paid speaking engagements for the authors HarperCollins, and its sister companies, publish. Andrea Rosen is the director. Some of the notable authors the HCSB represents include Carol Alt , Dennis Lehane , Gregory Maguire , Danny Meyer , Mehmet Oz , Sidney Poitier , Ted Sorensen , and Kate White . HarperAcademic

624-509: Is unknown. HarperCollins previously closed two US warehouses, one in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2011 and another in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2012. "We have taken a long-term, global view of our print distribution and are committed to offering the broadest possible reach for our authors," said HarperCollins Chief Executive Brian Murray, according to Publishers Weekly . "We are retooling

672-518: The New Statesman , The Oldie , Slightly Foxed , Apollo and the gardening quarterly Hortus . He was on the editorial board of the London Library Magazine (2008–2019) while he continues to serve on the editorial board of RIBA 's A Magazine . Since 1990 he has been one of the judges of the annual Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography, becoming chair in 2007, and he

720-925: The West Midlands of England. He attended the Downs Malvern in Colwall and Canford School in Dorset , and read English literature at University College London . He began a career in literary journalism while working in the Design Centre's bookshop in the 1980s, contributing regular book reviews to Gay News and The London Magazine . He published a number of short stories in The London Magazine , Fiction , Critical Quarterly and three PEN/Arts Council anthologies. Parker subsequently turned to writing non-fiction, and his first book, The Old Lie: The Great War and

768-467: The 1970s, with Crowell and the trade operations of Lippincott merged into Harper & Row in 1980. In 1988, Harper & Row purchased the religious publisher Zondervan , including subsidiary Marshall Pickering . William Collins, Sons was established in Glasgow in 1819 by Presbyterian schoolmaster William Collins . The firm's early emphasis was on religion and education, but diversified over time, making

816-585: The 2017 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Parker wrote a discursive account of the history and origins of plant names in his book A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners published by Little, Brown in 2018. Parker has edited Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1945–1969 , a major anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in London. The book, published by Penguin Classics ,

864-780: The Ackerley Prize. In 2024, the Prize formed a partnership with the Times Literary Supplement and was renamed the TLS Ackerley Prize. Peter Parker (author) Peter Parker (born 2 June 1954) is a British biographer, historian, journalist and editor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. Parker was born to Edward Parker and Patricia Sturridge on 2 June 1954 in Herefordshire in

912-588: The Council of the Royal Society of Literature (2008–14). From 2014 until 2017 he  was a visiting fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Northampton . Since 1979 Parker has been a frequent contributor of reviews and features to numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Listener , The Independent , The Daily Telegraph , The Sunday Times , The Spectator , The Times Literary Supplement ,

960-515: The Hearst Book Group, consisting of William Morrow & Company and Avon Books , in 1999. These imprints are now published under the rubric of HarperCollins. HarperCollins bought educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale in March 2010. In 2011, HarperCollins announced they had agreed to acquire the publisher Thomas Nelson . The purchase was completed on 11 July 2012, with an announcement that Thomas Nelson would operate independently given

1008-627: The Heart of England , is cultural history of A Shropshire Lad , was published by Little, Brown in 2016. It was among the Financial Times ' , The Spectator ' s, the Evening Standard ' s and The Sunday Times ' Best Books of 2016. The book was published in the US in 2017 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was a The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and nominated for

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1056-555: The Public-School Ethos was published by Constable in 1987. A paperback edition, with a new introduction, was published by Bloomsbury in 2007. Parker's second book Ackerley: The Life of J. R. Ackerley was also published by Constable in the UK in 1989 and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in America . He edited (and wrote much of) two literary encyclopaedias: A Reader's Guide to

1104-548: The Purple Crayon . They were the publishing home of Maurice Sendak , Shel Silverstein , and Margaret Wise Brown . In 1998, Nordstrom's personal correspondence was published as Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (illustrated by Maurice Sendak ), edited by Charlotte Zolotow . Zolotow began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom, became her protégé , and went on to write more than 80 books and edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's The Secret Language and

1152-543: The Twentieth-Century Novel published in the UK by Fourth Estate and Helicon in 1994 and in America by Oxford University Press in 1995, and A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers published in the UK by Fourth Estate and Helicon in 1995 and in America by Oxford University Press in 1996. Parker then wrote the "definitive" biography of Christopher Isherwood which took him 12 years to finish; he said, "I

1200-483: The United States Department of Justice filed United States v. Apple Inc. , naming Apple , HarperCollins, and four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that they conspired to fix prices for e-books , and weaken Amazon.com 's position in the market, in violation of antitrust law . In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which HarperCollins and

1248-655: The United States. Collins still exists as an imprint, chiefly for wildlife and natural history books, field guides, as well as for English and bilingual dictionaries based on the Bank of English , a large corpus of contemporary English texts. HarperCollins' imprints, including current and defunct imprints prior to various mergers, include: In 2008, HarperCollins launched a browsing feature on its website where customers can read selected excerpts from books before purchasing, on both desktop and mobile browsers. This functionality gave

1296-548: The backlist of many of the books originally published by its many merged imprints, in addition to having picked up new authors since the merger. Authors published originally by Harper include Mark Twain , the Brontë sisters , and William Makepeace Thackeray . Authors published originally by Collins include H. G. Wells and Agatha Christie . HarperCollins also acquired the publishing rights to J. R. R. Tolkien 's work in 1990 when Unwin Hyman

1344-654: The business publisher Amacom from the American Management Association . In 2020, HarperCollins acquired the children's publishers Egmont Books UK, Egmont Poland and Schneiderbuch Germany from the Egmont Group . On 29 March 2021, HarperCollins announced that it would acquire HMH Books & Media, the trade publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , for $ 349 million. The deal would allow HMH to pay down its debt and focus on digital education. The deal

1392-489: The company. The UAW union made the decision to strike after drawn-out negotiations between it and HarperCollins, which resulted in members "working without a contract since April." According to a spokesperson, HarperCollins "has agreed to a number of proposals that the UAW is seeking to include in a new contract" and "is disappointed an agreement has not been reached" but "will continue to negotiate in good faith." On 21 December 2022

1440-501: The firm combines the fire from Harper's torch and the water from Collins' fountain. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes different imprints , including former independent publishing houses and new imprints. The company's worldwide CEO is Brian Murray. The earliest of the publishing firms that comprise HarperCollins

1488-402: The five highest-ranked manuscripts each month would be read by HarperCollins editors for potential publication. The site was closed after authors "learned to game the system" to earn top-five rankings, and fewer authonomy titles were selected to be published. From 2009 to 2010, HarperCollins operated BookArmy , a social networking site. The HarperCollins Speakers Bureau (also known as HCSB)

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1536-424: The local put their in-person picketing on "pause" to give strikers an opportunity to spend time with their loved ones. The picketing resumed as scheduled on 3 January 2023. After three months of negotiations, the union agreed to a new contract with HarperCollins on February 16, 2023. Under the new terms, the annual starting pay of HarperCollins employees has increased from $ 45,000 to $ 47,500 upon ratification, and

1584-487: The media that the deal represents the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog. HarperCollins formerly operated authonomy , an online community of authors, from 2008 to 2015. The website offered an alternative to the traditional " slush pile " approach for handling unsolicited manuscripts sent to a publisher with little chance of being reviewed. Using authonomy, authors could submit their work for peer review and ranking by other members;

1632-597: The novelist Francis King , the biographer Michael Holroyd , the editor of Ackerley’s letters, Neville Braybrooke, food writer and historian Colin Spencer , the biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines and the novelist and short story writer Georgina Hammick . In 2023, the Prize’s long partnership with English PEN , when it was known as the PEN Ackerley Prize, came to an end, and it reverted to its original name of

1680-538: The other publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price-fixing . On 5 November 2012, HarperCollins announced to employees privately and then later in the day publicly that it was closing its remaining two US warehouses, to merge shipping and warehousing operations with R. R. Donnelley in Indiana. The Scranton, Pennsylvania, warehouse closed in September 2013 and

1728-690: The position it has in Christian book publishing. Both Thomas Nelson and Zondervan were then organized as imprints, or "keystone publishing programs," under a new division, HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Key roles in the reorganization were awarded to former Thomas Nelson executives. In 2012, HarperCollins acquired part of the trade operations of John Wiley & Son in Canada. In 2014, HarperCollins acquired Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises for C$ 455 million. In 2018, HarperCollins acquired

1776-662: The publisher's website the ability to compete with physical bookstores, in which customers can typically look at the book itself, and Amazon's use of excerpts ("teasers") for online book purchasers. At the beginning of October 2013, the company announced a partnership with online digital library Scribd . The official statement revealed that the "majority" of the HarperCollins US and HarperCollins Christian catalogs will be available in Scribd's subscription service. Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, explained to

1824-652: The script and acted as advisor to the producers, was released in 2010. Parker was a member of the executive committee of English PEN from 1993 to 1997 and a trustee of the PEN Literary Foundation, acting as chair from 1999 to 2000. He was on the committee of the London Library from 1999 to 2002, subsequently becoming a trustee (2004–07); chair of the Royal Horticultural Society 's Lindley Library Advisory Committee (2009–2013); and vice-chair of

1872-808: The seventh edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature (2009), Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read (2009) and Britten's Century , published in 2013 to mark the centenary of the composer Benjamin Britten . His edition of G. F. Green 's 1952 novel In the Making was published as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2012, and in 2016 he wrote an introduction to the Slightly Foxed edition of Diana Petre's 1975 memoir The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley . A full-length animated feature film of J. R. Ackerley's book My Dog Tulip , for which he collaborated on

1920-475: The traditional distribution model to ensure we can competitively offer the entire HarperCollins catalog to customers regardless of location." Company officials attribute the closings and mergers to the rapidly growing demand for e-book formats and the decline in print purchasing. In June 2020, HarperCollins was one of a group of publishers who sued the Internet Archive , arguing that its collection of e-books

1968-455: The works of Paul Fleischman . Zolotow later became head of the children's books department, and went on to become the company's first female vice president. The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis , while not originally published by a merged imprint of HarperCollins, was acquired by the publisher. HarperCollins has published these notable children's books: HarperCollins has more than 120 book imprints , most of which are based in

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2016-556: Was bought. Following is a list of some of the more noted books and series published by HarperCollins and their various imprints and merged publishing houses. Children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, overseeing the publication of classics such as Goodnight Moon , Where the Wild Things Are , The Giving Tree , Charlotte's Web , Beverly Cleary 's series starring Ramona Quimby , and Harold and

2064-480: Was challenged by experts. The notary's family members threatened a lawsuit and started a foundation. The Dutch publisher withdrew the book, but HarperCollins has not taken any definitive decision. On 10 November 2022, approximately 250 unionized workers at HarperCollins began an indefinite strike. Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union includes people in design, marketing, publicity, and sales for

2112-622: Was completed on 10 May. As of 7 July 2021, HMH's adult books will be published as Mariner Books, while HMH's children's books will be published as Clarion Books. In 2021, HarperCollins acquired the British publishers Pavilion Books. In 2022 HarperCollins acquired Cider Mill Press. Brian Murray, the current CEO of HarperCollins, succeeded Jane Friedman who was CEO from 1997 to 2008. Notable management figures include Lisa Sharkey , current senior vice president and director of creative development and Barry Winkleman from 1989 to 1994. In April 2012,

2160-513: Was denying authors and publishers revenue and accusing the library of "willful mass copyright infringement". In September 2020, HarperCollins sued Lindsay Lohan for entering into a book deal and collecting a $ 350,000 advance for a tell-all memoir that never materialized. A 2022 book written by Rosemary Sullivan , with HarperCollins as main publisher, designated a Jewish notary as the most likely suspect in Anne Frank 's betrayal. The conclusion

2208-580: Was for several years one of the judges of the Encore Award for a second novel. HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the " Big Five " English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House , Hachette , Macmillan , and Simon & Schuster . HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and London and

2256-677: Was founded in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, initially operating under the name J & J Harper. They were later joined by two other brothers, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher Harper , with the firm becoming Harper & Brothers in 1833. Harper & Brothers originated several notable magazine publications in the nineteenth century that would later be sold or discontinued, including Harper's Magazine , Harper's Weekly , Harper's Bazaar , and Harper's Young People . In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company to become Harper & Row . The firm acquired Thomas Y. Crowell Co. and J. B. Lippincott & Co. in

2304-466: Was married to Christopher Isherwood for 12 years and to J. R. Ackerley I think only for four." The book was published in 2004, on the centenary of Isherwood's birth, by Pan Macmillan in the UK under the title Isherwood and by Random House in America under the title Isherwood: A Life Revealed . David Thomson , in The New Republic described it as, "Immense and magnificent … A Life Revealed

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