Bedford-St. Martin's

Bedford/St. Martin's is a United States publishing company, specializing in college humanities textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Stuttgart, Germany-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Editorial offices are located in Boston and New York. The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen as Bedford Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. The current president is Joan Feinberg. Bedford/St. Martin's published some of the most successful textbooks in the publishing industry, including A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, Patterns for College Writing, The Bedford Reader, The American Promise and more. The texts are widely adopted in college courses as...