Harper & Row

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Harper & Row was the name of a US publishing house from 1962 to 1990.

In April 1962, the New York publisher Harper & Brothers, which had been founded by James Harper in 1817 , merged with the Illinois- based company Row, Peterson & Company to form Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. During its existence, Harper & Row acquired under TY Crowell, JB Lippincott, Zondervan Books and Scott, Foresman, among others. In 1987 Rupert Murdochs News Corporation Limited acquired Harper & Row. After buying the British publishing house William Collins & Sons in 1990, News Corporation merged the two companies, which have since then operated as HarperCollins Publishers .

The story of what would later become the literary criticism magazine Kirkus Reviews began in the historic Harper & Row publishing house in the late 1920s .

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