Macmillan Publishers is one of the Big Five English-language trade publishing houses, founded in London in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan. It is now part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Across the past century and a half Macmillan has published the working manuscripts of Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Sean O'Casey, Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind), and many others.
Its major American imprints include Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt and Company, Picador, St. Martin's Press, Tor Books, Forge, Flatiron Books, and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Macmillan Education is its dedicated educational and English-language-teaching publishing arm, which publishes the Macmillan Readers and Macmillan Cultural Readers graded reader series.
