Atlantic Monthly Press was founded in 1917 in Boston (as legend has it, at the bar of the Parker House Hotel) as a book publishing imprint born out of the venerable Atlantic Monthly magazine. Over the next six decades, numerous books published by Atlantic Monthly Press became bestsellers and won Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards, including the bestselling titles Mutiny on the Bounty; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Ship of Fools; Fire in the Lake; The Soul of a New Machine; and Blue Highways.
Under the leadership of new owners, the press separated from the magazine in 1986 and was established as a fully independent publishing house. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the press published the works of Raymond Carver, Ron Chernow, J. P. Donleavy, Richard Ford, Francisco Goldman, Jay McInerney, P. J. O’Rourke, Rian Malan, Jeanette Winterson, and Tobias Wolff.
After merging with Grove Press in 1993 to form Grove Atlantic, Atlantic Monthly Press has continued as an imprint, publishing notable titles that include Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down, Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City, George Crile’s Charlie Wilson’s War, Leif Enger’s Peace Like A River, Aminatta Forna’s The Devil That Danced on the Water, Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, Jim Harrison’s The Road Home, Lily King’s Euphoria, the Brunetti series by Donna Leon, and Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn.
