For more than 150 years, Henry Holt has published an eclectic listof history, fiction, science and nature, journalism, essays, poetry,and more. Our authors, who have ranged from Robert Frost andToni Morrison to Edward Snowden and Neil deGrasse Tyson,have won prizes and awards, including the Nobel Prize, thePulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National BookCritics Circle Award, and many others.
We are a close-knit team of editors, publicists, marketers, and designers working within a Big Five publishing house, enabling us to operate as a dynamic and scrappy boutique publisher with the sales, distribution, and corporate marketing resources of a major commercial house.
We publish a curated list of serious and idea-driven nonfiction and literary and upmarket commercial fiction from a diverse community of authors – continuing Holt’s long tradition while translating it for the twenty-first century. Unifying and underpinning this list is our curiosity and commitment to publishing ambitious books that engage with our world, tell stories that rivet and inspire, and galvanize readers to see and think in new ways.
In addition to the Holt imprint, the company also publishes books under the Metropolitan Books imprint.
The daughter of a printer, Carole Boston Weatherford was practically born with ink in her blood. She began writing at age 6 and soon after saw her poems in print. Her 80-plus books have garnered 2 NAACP Image Awards and 18 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, including a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and 4 Caldecott Honors. Her career achievements have been recognized with the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Nonfiction Award from the Children’s Book Guild and induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. A retired English professor, she lives in Maryland.
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