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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music books, as well as books for children. In 2006 the company was named Publisher of the Year.

Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike....
company Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John Chipman Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy and finally to its curr...
, now operated as part of the Macmillan group

Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a Private company international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
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r and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but its roots go back further to the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer

Maurice Gwyer

Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer, Order of the Indian Empire, Order of the Bath was Vice Chancellor of Delhi University, and Chief Justice of India . Sir Maurice was educated at Highgate School....
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Faber and Faber, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a Private company international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
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Origins

Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but its roots go back further to the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer

Maurice Gwyer

Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer, Order of the Indian Empire, Order of the Bath was Vice Chancellor of Delhi University, and Chief Justice of India . Sir Maurice was educated at Highgate School....
. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine The Nursing Mirror. The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Geoffrey Faber

Geoffrey Faber

Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber was a British academic, publisher and poet. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined Oxford University Press in 1913....
, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England.Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become Fellows, i.e., full members of the College's governing body....
, and Faber and Gwyer was founded in 1925. After four years, The Nursing Mirror was sold and Geoffrey Faber and the Gwyers agreed to go their separate ways. Searching for a name with a ring of respectability, Geoffrey hit on the name Faber and Faber, although the implied partnership was pure invention.

In the meantime, the firm had prospered. T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
, who had been suggested to Faber by a colleague at All Souls, had left Lloyds Bank in London to join him as a literary adviser and in the first season the firm issued his Poems 1909 - 1925. In addition, the catalogues from the early years included books by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an United States expatriate poetry, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist poetry movement in the first half of the 20th century....
, Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eug?ne Cl?ment Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en sc?ne language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde....
, Herbert Read

Herbert Read

Attention Urban75! Herbert Read is Firky.Sir Herbert Edward Read, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross was an English anarchism poet, and critic of literature and art....
, Max Eastman

Max Eastman

Max Forrester Eastman was an United States writer on literature, politics and society; supporter of progressive causes, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance....
, George Rylands, John Dover Wilson, Geoffrey Keynes

Geoffrey Keynes

Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was an English biographer, Surgery, Internal medicine, Scholarly method and bibliophile. He was the younger brother of the Economics John Maynard Keynes....
, Forrest Reid

Forrest Reid

Forrest Reid was a novelist, literary critic, and translator. He was, along with Hugh Walpole and J.M. Barrie, a leading pre-war United Kingdom novelist of boyhood....
and Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West

Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, Order of the Companions of Honour , best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an England author and poet....
. In 1928 the anonymous Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928. It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being immediately recognised as a classic of English literature....
appeared, proving so popular that over the next six months it was reprinted eight times. Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, Commander of British Empire Military Cross was an English poetry and author. He became known as a writer of satire anti-war poetry during World War I....
's name was added to the title page for the second impression as the book became Faber's first commercial success, and an enduring literary classic.

Role in publishing

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
was always to be a prime element in the Faber list and under T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century....
, Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Harold Spender Order of British Empire was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work....
and Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice

Frederick Louis MacNeice was a United Kingdom poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C....
soon joined Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore was a Modernism American poet and writer....
, Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis was an England Painting and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST ....
, John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher was a Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poetry and author. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family....
, Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell

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, James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
and Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an British poetry, short story writer and British literature, probably best remembered for his works for children and "The Listeners"....
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Under Geoffrey Faber's chairmanship the board in 1929 included T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Charles Stewart

Charles Stewart may refer to:British nobility:* Charles William Stewart later Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry* Charles Stewart, 6th Duke of Lennox , brother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; father of Arbella Stewart...
and Frank Morley

Frank Morley

Frank Morley was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. Among his mathematical accomplishments was the discovery and proof of the celebrated Morley's trisector theorem in elementary Euclidean geometry....
. This young and highly intelligent team built up a comprehensive and profitable catalogue which always had a distinctive physical identity and much of which is still in print. Biographies, memoir

Memoir

As a literature genre, a memoir , or a reminiscence, forms a subclass of autobiography ? although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are today almost interchangeable....
s, fiction

Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
, poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
, political and religious essays, art

Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
and architecture

Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
monographs, children's books, and a pioneering ecology

Ecology

Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
list years ahead of its time, gave an unmistakable character to the productions of 24 Russell Square, the firm's Georgian

Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
offices in Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury may refer to:* Bloomsbury, an area in central London.* the Bloomsbury Group, an English literary group active around from around 1905 to the start of World War II....
. It also published T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
's literary review, The Criterion.

In the Second World War, paper shortages meant profits were large, but almost all went in taxes and subsequent years were difficult. However, with recovery a new generation joined Faber, bringing in writers such as William Golding

William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding was a United Kingdom novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies....
, Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with UK and preferred to be considered World citizen....
, Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946....
, Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes Order of Merit was an England poet and Children's literature, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation....
, Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath was an United States poet, novelist and short story writer.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas....
, W. S. Graham

W. S. Graham

'William Sydney Graham' was a Scotland poet who is often associated with Dylan Thomas and the Neo-romanticism group of poets. Graham's work was mostly overlooked in his lifetime but, partly due to the support of Harold Pinter, his work has enjoyed a revival in recent years and is represented in the Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and...
, Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

Philip Arthur Larkin, Order of the Companions of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , was a UK poet, novelist and jazz critic....
, P. D. James

P. D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature , commonly known as P....
, Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
and John Osborne

John Osborne

John James Osborne was an England playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of The Establishment. The stunning success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
. These last two, first published in the 1960s, represented the firm's growing commitment to modern drama

Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
, reflected in a pre-eminence that remains to the present day.

Faber today

Faber and Faber has continued to prosper in recent years and is now the last of the great independent publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
houses in London. Its commitment to continuity is reflected in the depth of its backlist, whilst the frontlist goes from strength to strength. Established names have been joined by new voices including Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a United Kingdom novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Masters degree from the University of East Anglia UEA Creative Writing Course in 1980....
, Peter Carey

Peter Carey

Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist and short story writer. He is one of only two writers, the other being J. M. Coetzee, to have won the Man Booker Prize twice....
, Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkey novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia University....
and Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is an United States writer. She has written, or collaborated on, 12 books, most of which are novels, but including some poems, short stories and essays....
, and its arts lists continue to break new talent in poetry, drama, film and music. Having published the theatrical works of Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
for many years, the company acquired the rights to the remainder of his oeuvre from the publishing house of John Calder

John Calder

John Calder is a Canada and Scotland publisher who founded Calder Publishing in 1949....
in 2007.

Faber's American arm was sold in 1998 to Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Premises

On 19 January 2009 Faber and Faber moved from its premises in 3 Queen Square, London to Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street, London.

Nobel Laureates at Faber

1948 T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot

'Thomas Stearns Eliot', Order of Merit , was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J....
1960 Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse

Saint-John Perse was a France poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."...
1969 Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz ; was a Poles poet, prose and translator. From 1961 to 1978 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley....
1983 William Golding
William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding was a United Kingdom novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies....
1992 Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott

Derek Alton Walcott is a West Indies poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English language. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992....
1995 Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish people poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin....
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
Wislawa Szymborska

Wislawa Szymborska is a Poland poetry, essayist and translator. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her books reach sales rivaling prominent prose authors—although she once remarked in a poem entitled "Some like poetry" [Niekt?rzy lubia poezje] that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the a...
1999 Günter Grass
Günter Grass

G?nter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Germany author and playwright.He was born in the Free City of Danzig . Since 1945, he has lived in West Germany , but in his fiction he frequently returns to the Danzig of his childhood....
2005 Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire , an English people playwright, screenwriter, actor, Theatre director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, was at the time of his death considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."...
2006 Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk

Ferit Orhan Pamuk generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkey novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia University....

External links

A photograph of the famous Faber poets, Eliot, Auden, MacNeice, Spender, and Hughes, together at a literary function is archived at the U.K.'s National Portrait Gallery as

Faber and Faber

Origins

Role in publishing

Faber today

Premises

Nobel Laureates at Faber

See also

External links