- David R. Godine, Publisher
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David R. Godine, Publisher Founded 1970 Founder David R. Godine Country of origin United States Headquarters location Boston Publication types Books Imprints Black Sparrow Official website godine.com David R. Godine, Publisher is an American book publishing company, founded in 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts by David R. Godine. Many of the early titles were fine letterpress editions, using a 40" Kelly-3 flatbed reciprocating letterpress with three form rollers. The company has since grown to become a well-regarded, small, general trade publisher. The press now publishes between twenty and thirty titles annually, with an eclectic list that ranges from literary fiction in translation to illustrated books on gardening. Acquisitions are driven by the tastes and passions of David R. Godine, the founder and still-active president.[1] Several of those earliest editions are now considered collector's items, including Arthur Freeman's Assays of Bias, Andrew Marvell's Garden (printed on a Vandercook press #20), and Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and A Plea for Captain John Brown.
Both the press and its authors have won prestigious awards over the years, including the W.A. Dwiggins Award in 1984, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award in 1987, and the first New England Booksellers Annual Award in 1989.[1] In 2008, J.M.G. Le Clézio, the author of The Prospector (Godine, 1993), was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature,[2] and Godine plans to publish Le Clézio's acclaimed novel Desert in the Spring of 2009.[3]
In 2002, John Martin, in a gentleman's agreement with David R. Godine, sold the rights, remaining stock, and back list of titles for Black Sparrow Press to David R. Godine, Publisher — this did not include Black Sparrow's most popular authors, however: Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Wyndham Lewis, and Paul Bowles. Since that time, the editors at Godine have added authors Eddie Chuculate, Kenneth Burke, Daniel Fuchs, and Linda Bamber to the Black Sparrow imprint, brought several titles by Charles Reznikoff back into print, and continued to publish and republish existing Black Sparrow authors, such as Wanda Coleman and Lyn Lifshin.
References
- ^ a b http://www.godine.com/show.asp?id=4
- ^ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2008/bio-bibl.html
- ^ http://www.godine.com/isbn.asp?isbn=1567923860
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Categories:- Book publishing companies of Massachusetts
- Companies established in 1970
- Companies based in Boston, Massachusetts
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