Heinemann

Parent company	Pearson Education (UK education) Random House (UK trade) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US education) Egmont Group (UK children's)
Founded	1978; 40 years ago (1978)
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Portsmouth, New Hampshire (US)
Official website	www.heinemann.com (US education)

Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services established in 1978 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a U.S. subsidiary of Heinemann UK. Heinemann published the first-ever teacher professional book in 1983, and has since expanded to curricular resources, assessment systems, leveled literacy intervention, and Professional Development services. Today, the UK education imprint is owned by Pearson, the UK trade publications are owned by Random House and the US education imprint is owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

History[edit]

In 1983 Heinemann published Writing: Teachers and Children at Work by the late Donald Graves, and with it a new genre, the teacher professional book, was born. What Don articulated—a more student-centered approach to writing instruction rooted in a deep belief in teachers as decision makers—made a difference in the lives of teachers and, subsequently, students.
Today Heinemann publishes not only professional books but also curricular resources for teaching literacy and math, benchmark assessment tools, leveled literacy interventions, and more.
Donald Graves’ work laid the foundation for what today is called Writing Workshop. He introduced the then revolutionary idea that students best learn to write by doing what real writers do. By giving students choice in topics, providing authentic reasons to write and real audiences to write for, building in time and space to plan and draft, and modeling their own writing, teachers helped kids experience the writing process.

Heinemann continues to publish resources that push the workshop idea further and further. Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study for Reading and Units of Study for Writing present the latest thinking on the workshop model. Meanwhile next-generation resources such as Jennifer Serravallo’s Reading Strategies Book and Writing Strategies Book support the workshop (or any approach) by providing curricular content that make differentiation instruction for individuals or groups simpler. Heinemann is also the publisher of Fountas & Pinnell Literacy.

Heinemann UK History[edit]

William Heinemann began working in the publishing industry under Nicolas Trübner,^[1] who was a major publisher of what was called Oriental scholarship.^[2] When, two years after Trübner's death, his company was taken over by the firm of Kegan Paul, Heinemann left and founded William Heinemann Ltd in Covent Garden, London, in 1890.^[1] The first title published was Hall Caine's The Bondman, which was a "stunning success", selling more than 450,000 copies.^[3] The company also released a number of works translated into English under the branding of "Heinemann's International Library", edited by Edmund Gosse.^[4] In 1893, Sydney Pawling became a partner.^[5][6] They became known for publishing the works of Sarah Grand.^[7] The company published the British version of Scribners' Great Education Series under the title Heinemann's Great Education Series, but did not include credits for the original American editor, Nicholas Murray Butler, an omission for which they were criticized.^[7]

Between 1895 and 1897, Heinemann was the publisher of William Ernest Henley's periodical New Review.^[8] In the late 1890s, Heinemann and the American publisher Frank Doubleday financially supported Joseph Conrad during his initial attempt at writing what eventually became The Rescue, and Heinemann was the British publisher for Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' in 1897.^[6] One of the company's businesses at that time was to sell English books to a Japan that was beginning to be interested in items of Western culture. Heinemann sold to the Japanese bookstore Maruzen translations of the works of Dostoyevsky and 5000 copies of Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin.^[9] In 1912, the company began publishing the Loeb Classical Library series, publications of ancient works with the Greek or Latin text on the left-hand page, and a literal translation on the right hand page.^[10] The series has been called "the most significant" of the parallel-text translations.^[10] Since 1934, it has been co-published with Harvard University.^[10][11]

On Heinemann's death in 1920 a majority stake was purchased by U.S. publisher Doubleday,^[5] with Theodore Byard, who had previously been a professional singer, joining to lead the offices.^[5]

A subsidiary company was established in The Hague in 1953; originally intended to distribute works in English to continental Europe, it eventually began to directly print Heinemann's books as well.^[3]

The company was later acquired by conglomerate Thomas Tilling in 1961. When the impending takeover became known, Graham Greene (who had been with Heinemann since his first work in 1929)^[12] led a number of Heinemann authors who protested by taking their works to other publishers, including The Bodley Head, of which Greene was a director.^[12][13]

BTR bought Thomas Tilling in 1983, and were not interested in its publishing division, so Heinemann was put on the block. Heinemann was purchased by the Octopus Publishing Group in 1985, and shortly afterwards sold the sprawling Heinemann HQ in rural Kingswood, Surrey for development; Octopus was purchased by Reed International (now Reed Elsevier) in 1987. Heinemann Professional Publishing was merged with Butterworths Scientific in 1990 to form Butterworth-Heinemann.^[14]Random House bought Heinemann's trade publishing (now named William Heinemann) in 1997. Heinemann's educational unit became part of Harcourt Education when Reed Elsevier purchased the company in 2001. Pearson purchased the UK, South African, Australian and New Zealand arms of Harcourt Education in May 2007, while Houghton Mifflin purchased the American operations a few months later.

In 1957, Heinemann Educational Books (HEB) created the African Writers Series, spearheaded by Alan Hill and West Africa specialist Van Milne, to focus on publishing the writers of Africa such as Chinua Achebe, who was the first advisory editor of the series. Heinemann was awarded the 1992 Worldaware Award for Social Progress.^[15] The series was relaunched by Pearson in 2011.^[16][17]

Inspired by the African Writers Series, Leon Comber launched the Writing in Asia Series in 1966 from Singapore. Two Austin Coates books in the series, Myself a Mandarin and City of Broken Promises, became bestsellers, but the series, after publishing more than 70 titles, was to fold in 1984 when Heinemann Asia was taken over by a parent group of publishers.^[18]

In 1970, the Caribbean Writers Series — modelled on the African Writers Series — was launched by James Currey and others at HEB to republish work by major Caribbean writers.^[19][20]

Published works[edit]

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  Backhouse, Sir Edmund; Bland, John Otway Percy (1914). Annals & memoirs of the court of Peking: (from the 16th to the 20th century). W. Heinemann. Retrieved 1 April 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
  

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• Charles Pick (Heinemann Group Managing Director, 1979-1985) Archive, University of East Anglia