Scribner (formerly Charles Scribner's Sons) is one of the most historically important imprints in American publishing, founded in 1846 by Charles Scribner and Isaac D. Baker. As Charles Scribner's Sons under the legendary editor Maxwell Perkins (editor from 1910 until his death in 1947) the house published the working manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Ring Lardner, defining the working canon of twentieth-century American literary fiction. It was acquired by Macmillan in 1984 and by Simon and Schuster in 1994, where it now operates as a literary imprint.
Its writing-craft and reference list under the modern Scribner imprint includes Stephen King's On Writing (2000), Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English, and other working references for serious writers.
