History
Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston, in 1852, as E. P. Dutton, but it wasn't until 1864 when a branch office was set up in New York, that the company began to publish books. Its original focus was on religious titles, and its first bestseller was the two-volume Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar, published in 1874.
In 1885, John Macrae began working at Dutton as an office boy; he would spend fifty-nine years with the company (to 1944), rising through the ranks. He became president in 1923, and he and his two sons bought the publishing house in 1928.
E. P. Dutton ceased to exist as an independent company in 1985, when New American Library brought the company, which in turn acquired by Viking Penguin (now Penguin Group USA) a year later, splitting into two imprints: Dutton and Dutton Children's Books. Dutton Children's Books is the US publisher of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
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