Hill and Wang

Hill and Wang is an American book publishing company focused on American history, world history, and politics. It is a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hill and Wang was founded as an independent publishing house in 1956 by Arthur Wang and Lawrence Hill, who were both working at A. A. Wyn. They bought backlist books from Wyn and started Dramabooks, publishing plays in trade paperback, then a new format. The series included Jean Cocteau, Arthur L. Kopit and Lanford Wilson. In 1959, Arthur Wang acquired Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir, Night, which had been turned down by several English-language publishers, publishing it in 1960. They continued to build the Hill and Wang list to include such authors as Roland Barthes, Langston Hughes, and American historians Stanley Kutler and William Cronon.^[1]

In 1971, the two sold Hill & Wang to Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and the imprint continues to be recognized for its high quality nonfiction. More recently, it has published authors such as Cass Sunstein, Philip Gura, John Allen Paulos, Melvyn Leffler, Thomas Bender, William Poundstone, Woody Holton, and Eric Rauchway.

The imprint also launched a graphic line, "Novel Graphics," when it published a graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. It has since published several graphic biographies and works of graphic journalism, and a graphic adaptation of the United States Constitution.

Notable authors

• Elie Wiesel, Night, Hill & Wang, 1960, 2006.
• Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and Wang, 2007). Finalist for the National Book Award
• William Pfaff, "Barbarian Sentiments: How the American Century Ends" (Hill and Wang, 1989). Finalist for the National Book Award
• Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill and Wang, 2007). Nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award

References

External links

• Hill and Wang
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux