Bridge Works specializes in quality trade fiction. Since it's founding in 1992 by Barbara and Warren Phillips (former publisher and CEO of The Wall Street Journal), Bridge Works has become known for discovering and launching the careers of talented new authors. Bridge Works novels have won the National Jewish Book Award and Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery; have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award; and have been among The New York Times ' Notable Books of the Year. Individual Bridge Works books have won praise from such distinguished writers as Alison Lurie, Cynthia Ozick, Peter Matthiessen, Thomas Mallon, Katharine Graham, Frank McCourt, Robert Olen Butler, and Bobbie Ann Mason and have been republished in translation in more than a dozen countries. Barbara and Warren run Bridge Works out of offices in Bridgehampton, New York.

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Ivan R. Dee publishes serious nonfiction trade books in history, politics, biography, literature, philosophy, and theater. Ivan R. Dee books are provocative, authoritative, and aimed at the intelligent layperson. They are routinely reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other influential publications. Ivan R. Dee paperbacks are also used extensively in college courses as supplementary reading.

Founded in 1988 by Ivan Dee, the house was acquired in 1998 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Ivan Dee continues as Publisher in the company's Chicago headquarters. Alexander Dee serves as Vice President of Marketing in the same office. Among the authors published by Ivan R. Dee are Isaiah Berlin, Robert Brustein, Anthony Burgess, John Gross, Raul Hilberg, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Aldous Huxley, Hilton Kramer, Richard Schickel, Budd Schulberg, and John Simon.

Ivan R. Dee also oversees New Amsterdam Press and J.S. Sanders & Company imprints-the latter of which was founded by John Sanders of Nashville, Tennessee, to publish and republish general trade books on Southern culture, history, and literature. Many classic novels about the South, as well as histories and biographies of the region and its leaders, are still in print today thanks to J.S. Sanders.

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The Taylor Trade Publishing Group consolidates the output of seven recently acquired small presses: Addax (2002); The Derrydale Press (1999); Diamond Communications (2001);Gulf Publishing (2001); Republic of Texas Press (2002); Roberts Rinehart (2000);Taylor (2001); M. Evans (2005); and Longstreet Press (2005). Also managed under the Taylor Trade imprint are Madison Books, founded in 1985 by University Press of America; and Cooper Square Press, acquired in 1988.

The Taylor Trade publishing program consists of an awardwinning list of books on gardening, health, history, family issues, sports, entertainment, nature, field guides, house and home, and children's titles. It also provides the Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group with a strong regional presence from the Mississippi west to California, and from Texas to the Canadian border. Among its perennial bestsellers are Neil Sperry's Complete Guide to Texas Gardening, The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need, and The Yankees: An Authorized History.

Taylor Trade's Editorial Director is former Roberts Rinehart Publisher Rick Rinehart, who oversees four field editors from Rowman and Littlefield's Boulder office.