History
Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. left his family publishing house and created Atheneum Books in 1959. It became the publisher of Pulitzer Prize winners Edward Albee, Charles Johnson, and Theodore H. White. Knopf recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961.
Atheneum merged with Charles Scribner's Sons to become The Scribner Book Company in 1978. The acquisition included Rawson Associates. Scribner was acquired by Macmillan in 1984. Macmillan was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994.
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