#17: Charles Scribner 1840

Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library

He founded a company that has published dozens of influential writers, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17, Thomas Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut; his descendant,s, notably Charles Scribner 1875, helped the company flourish and began publication of some of the first mass-circulation magazines.

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