Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by
Charles Coffin Little and his partner,
James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by many of America's finest writers. Early lists featured
Little Women by
Louisa May Alcott,
Emily Dickinson's poetry, and
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, all of which are still available today. In 1993 Little, Brown created a new trade paperback imprint, Back Bay Books, to focus on long-term publication of the company's best fiction and nonfiction and to publish original trade paperbacks. Little, Brown is also the home of Bulfinch Press, a leading publisher of art and photography books.