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Atheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. As of the 2000s, it is a children's-book imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. It became the publisher of Pulitzer Prize winners Edward Albee, Charles Johnson, and Theodore H. White. It had a children's division set up in 1961 by Jean Karl. Atheneum merged with Charles Scribner's Sons to become The Scribner Boo... more
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