Scribners

  An engaging personal account of family history, Scribners (Lyons Press) recounts the legendary history of more than 150 years of the publishing house Charles Scribner’s Sons. From its early beginnings founded in an unused chapel in downtown New York to present day, author Charles Scribner, the fifth generation in the family business, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the book publishing world. Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and so many others are among the celebrated authors who have worked with the publisher. Scribners gives readers a view “between the covers.”