- Hamish Hamilton
"For other uses of the name Hamish Hamilton, please see
Hamish Hamilton (disambiguation) "Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded
eponym ously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton ("Hamish" is the Celtic form, "James" the English form - which was also his given name, and "Jamie" thediminutive form). Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as "Hamish Hamilton". The publishing brand "Hamish Hamilton" is presently animprint ofPenguin Books ."Hamish Hamilton Limited" originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the
United Kingdom - includingJ.D. Salinger 's "Catcher in the Rye ". "Hamish Hamilton Law" and "Hamish Hamilton Medical" were started in1939 but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district ofBloomsbury and went on to publish a large number of promising British and American authors, a large number of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of "Jamie Hamilton".Jamie Hamilton sold the firm to the
Thomson Organisation in1965 , who resold it to Penguin Books in1986 .References
* [http://www.hamishhamilton.co.uk/nf/shared/WebDisplay/0,,214007_14_1,00.html A biography of Jamie Hamilton and a history of Hamish Hamilton] at the official Hamish Hamilton site
* [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03070102.html A link] to the Hamish Hamilton Collection at theUniversity of Bristol , and a short biographyExternal links
* [http://www.hamishhamilton.co.uk Official site]
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