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E. P. Dutton
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E. P. Dutton is an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts in 1852 by Edward Payson Dutton.
In 1864, Dutton expanded to New York City where they began publishing religious books. In 1906, Dutton struck what proved to be a significant deal with the English publishing company of J. M. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints.
John Macrae joined the company in 1885 as an office boy and in 1923 was named president. In 1928, the publishing and retail divisions were split into two separate businesses with Macrae acquiring the publishing side, operating as E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. For the next fifty-eight years, E. P. Dutton was one of the leading independent publishers in the United States, putting out works by writers such as John Hunt, Cleveland Amory, Milton Glaser, Francoise Sagan, Lawrence Durrell, Luigi Pirandello, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Matthiessen, Gavin Maxwell, Gail Sheehy, Ruth Manning-Sanders, La Toya Jackson and Mickey Spillane.
From its advertisements in the January 28, 1922 edition of The Publishers' Weekly, we see that E. P. Dutton was situated on 681 Fifth Avenue, New York, and that it dealt in used and antiquarian books.
Dutton Children's Books is one of the oldest continually operating children's book publishers in the United States whose books include the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
In 1986, Dutton Books was acquired by the Penguin Group (USA) and operates now as an imprint.