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Straus and Giroux Farrar

 
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Publishing company in New York City noted for its literary excellence. It was founded in 1946 by John Farrar and Roger Straus as Farrar, Straus & Co. After various changes in personnel and name, it became Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1964, with the addition of Robert Giroux as editor in chief. The company became established as a leading independent trade publisher of writers of the first rank, including many Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. In 1994 a controlling interest was sold to the German media company Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.

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