Atlantic Monthly Press is
founded in Boston (as legend
has it, at the bar of the Parker House Hotel.) It becomes the book-publishing imprint of the venerable Atlantic Monthly magazine.

Atlantic Monthly Press becomes an imprint of Little, Brown.

Grove Press is founded on
Grove Street in New York’s Greenwich Village.

Twenty-eight-year-old Barney Rosset Jr. buys Grove Press for $3,000, and turns it into one of the most influential publishers of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. From the outset, Rosset took chances: Grove publishes many of the Beats, including William S. Burroughs,

Samuel Beckett’s ~Waiting for
Godot.~

Barney Rosset challenges the U.S. obscenity laws by publishing D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. His landmark court victories changed the American cultural landscape.

Black Cat is created as the mass market paperback imprint of Grove Press.

Grove Press releases the American edition of William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch after a three-year censorship battle with the U.S. government.

Grove Press continues to publish literary erotic classics like The Story of O and groundbreaking gay fiction like John Rechy’s City of Night, as well as the works of Marquis de Sade.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Tom Stoppard’s Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Jacqueline Susann’s ~Valley of
the Dolls.~

Samuel Beckett wins the
Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Mysterious Press is founded by Otto Penzler and becomes the first publishing company to issue mystery fiction in limited, signed, slipcased editions.

The Confederacy of Dunces wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

David Mamet wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Black Cat paperback imprint is retired by Grove Press.

Atlantic Monthly Press is separated from Atlantic Monthly magazine and becomes a fully independent publishing house.

Otto Penzler sells The Mysterious Press to Warner Books. Tobias Wolff’s ~This Boy’s Life:
A Memoir is published.~

P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores becomes a New York Times #1 Best-Seller.

Atlantic Monthly Press is merged with Grove Weidenfeld, and becomes a hardcover imprint of the new company, Grove Atlantic.
Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain wins the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

Kenzabouro Oe wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Candace Bushnells’s Sex and the City and Jon Lee Anderson’s Che Guevera: A Revolutionary Life are first published.
Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain wins the National Book Award.

Mark Bowden’s
Black Hawk Down.

George Crile’s ~Charlie
Wilson’s War. DC Pierre’s Vernon God Little wins The Man Booker Prize. Sabina Murray’s Caprices~ wins the PEN Faulkner Award.

Black Cat is revived as the
trade paperback imprint of
Grove Atlantic.

Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss
wins The Man Booker Prize.

Grove Atlantic acquires the Mysterious Press imprint.

Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn.

Kay Ryan wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer wins the Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction.