Melville House Publishing

Melville House Publishing
Melville House Publishing
Founded2001; 23 years ago (2001)
FounderDennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBrooklyn, New York
DistributionPenguin Random House Publisher Services (US)
Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1]
Publication typesBooks
ImprintsStop Smiling
Official websitewww.mhpbooks.com

Melville House Publishing is an American independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 and is run by the husband-and-wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey.[2] The company is named after the author Herman Melville.[3] It has a reputation as an "activist press" and publisher of left-leaning books.

  1. ^ "Our publishers". Turnaround Publisher Services. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Lewis Beale (July 28, 2002). "NEW JERSEY & CO.; When Publish or Perish Is More Than Just Words". The New York Times. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
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