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Frederick A. Praeger (publisher)

Frederick A. Praeger
Frederick Amos Praeger
Born(1915-09-16)16 September 1915
Vienna, Austria
Died28 May 1994(1994-05-28) (aged 78)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPublisher
Known forFounder of Frederick A. Praeger, Inc.
AwardsCarey-Thomas Award (Publishers Weekly)

Frederick A. Praeger (16 September 1915 – 28 May 1994) was an Austrian-born American publisher.[1][2] In 1950 he founded Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., a "major Manhattan publishing house"[3] whose books would include "art books and books about the Cold War, international affairs, and the military".[4] The firm is now an imprint of the Greenwood Publishing Group.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Praeger Publishers, Inc." (entry), in: George Thomas Kurian, The Directory of American Book Publishing: From Founding Fathers to Today's Conglomerates, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975, pp. 199-200.
  2. ^ Werner Röder and Herbert A. Strauss, eds., "Praeger, Frederick Amos" (entry), in: Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933–1945, Munich: K. G. Saur, 1999.
  3. ^ Richard D. Lyons, "Frederick A. Praeger Dies at 78; Published Books on Communism", The New York Times, 5 June 1994. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  4. ^ Praeger Publishers, The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition), 9780198606536. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  5. ^ Hendrik Edelman, Frederick A. Praeger: Apostle of Anti-Communism Who Built Two Publishing Houses, in: Richard Abel and Gordon Graham, Immigrant Publishers, Routledge, 2009, taylorfrancis.com. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Praeger, Frederick Amos", encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 5 June 2023.

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