The 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.

Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s Mutiny on the Bounty.

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 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

Barney Rosset begins challenging U.S. obscenity laws by publishing D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, then Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, and in 1962 William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. His landmark court victories change 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 the Marquis de Sade.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Samuel Beckett wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Frances FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake wins the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

A Confederacy of Dunces wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways.

David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross wins the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
The Black Cat paperback imprint is retired by Grove Press.

Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Ann Getty acquires Grove Press and together with Lord Weidenfeld creates Grove Weidenfeld.

Atlantic Monthly Press is separated from Atlantic Monthly magazine and becomes a fully independent publishing house. The Atlantic Monthly backlist is retained by Little, Brown.

Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger wins the Booker Prize.

Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life.

Ron Chernow’s The House of Morgan wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Octavio Paz wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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

Lewis Burwell Puller Jr.’s memoir Fortunate Son wins the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

Together with Joan Bingham, Morgan Entrekin acquires Grove Weidenfeld. Atlantic Monthly Press merges with Grove to create Grove Atlantic.
Francisco Goldman’s The Long Night of White Chickens wins the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Dagoberto Gilb’s The Magic of Blood wins the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.
Kenzaburo Oe wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City.

Jon Lee Anderson’s Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life.
Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain wins the National Book Award for Fiction and the Sue Kaufman Prize and becomes a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Jim Harrison’s The Road Home is published by Grove Press. Over the coming decades, Grove reissues Harrison’s entire backlist and publishes all his new prose works.

Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down.

Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River.
Sherman Alexie and Richard Ford win the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

George Crile’s Charlie Wilson’s War.
DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little wins the Man Booker Prize.
Sabina Murray’s The Caprices wins the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Barry Hannah wins the PEN/Malamud.

Black Cat is revived as the trade paperback original imprint of Grove Atlantic.
Elfriede Jelinek wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss wins the Man Booker Prize.
Tobias Wolff wins the PEN/Malamud.

Anne Enright’s The Gathering wins the Man Booker Prize.

Michael Thomas’s Man Gone Down wins the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn.
Josh Weil’s The New Valley wins the Sue Kaufman Prize. Sherman Alexie’s War Dances wins the PEN/Faulkner.

Kay Ryan wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
The Mysterious Press is relaunched as an imprint of Grove Atlantic.

Mo Hayder’s Gone wins the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike wins the Tony Award for Best Play, after a hit run on Broadway.

Lily King’s Euphoria wins the Kirkus Prize and is named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the New York Times.

Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk wins the Costa Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls is reissued in a 50th anniversary edition in hardcover and paperback.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and seven other prizes.

Emily Fridlund’s History of Wolves wins the Sue Kaufman Prize and is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House wins the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other wins the Booker Prize.

Executive Editor Joan Bingham passes away.
Isabella Hammad’s The Parisian wins the Sue Kaufman Prize.
Walter Mosley is awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation.
Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain wins the Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize, and is a finalist for the National Book Award.
The Mysterious Press moves to W. W. Norton.

David Zucchino’s Wilmington’s Lie wins the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Donna Leon’s 30th Commissario Brunetti novel, Transient Desires.
Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of fiction and nonfiction titles selected and edited by Roxane Gay, is created.