Harcourt Brace and Company

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Harcourt Brace and Company

COMPANY

Founded 1919 by Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace. Now Harcourt Trade Publishers, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier since 2001.

Industry:
Media

Ticker:
(subsidiary)

Corporate headquarters:
New York City

EXECUTIVES

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Robert Giroux Publisher 8-Apr-1914 5-Sep-2008 Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Joel Elias Spingarn Critic 17-May-1875 26-Jul-1939 Literary critic, NAACP leader

EMPLOYMENT

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Ted Nelson Computer Programmer 17-Jun-1937 Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu

Daniel Okrent Author 2-Apr-1948 Former public editor, New York Times

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