Melville House Publishing is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 by the husband and wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey, a location Johnson jokingly called "the Left Bank" of New York City. In 2007, they were named by the Association of American Publishers as the winner of the 2007 Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing, p...
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Melville House Publishing is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 by the husband and wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey, a location Johnson jokingly called "the Left Bank" of New York City. In 2007, they were named by the Association of American Publishers as the winner of the 2007 Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing, popularly known as the "indie publisher of the year" award.
Melville House has published a variety of authors including Andre Schiffrin, Celia Farber, Stephen Dixon, Frank O'Connor, Régis Debray, Renata Adler, Mark Danner, Randall Kenan, Lewis Lapham, French (then-)Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, T Cooper, Tao Lin, Lee Rourke and others. The company has been adept at attracting well-known authors away from larger establishment presses. In late 2007, Johnson announced the company had lured Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz away from his long...
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