John Wiley and Sons (Wiley) is one of the oldest and largest American academic, scientific, and professional publishers, founded in 1807 in New York City by Charles Wiley as a small printing shop near Manhattan's Battery. Across more than two centuries Wiley has published the working manuscripts of Edgar Allan Poe (Tamerlane), Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville (Typee and Omoo), and Charles Dickens, and is now the working publisher of the For Dummies series, Bloomberg Press titles, and a substantial scientific and engineering journal portfolio.