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| Founded | 1995 |
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| Founder | Dan Simon |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, United States |
| Distribution | Penguin Random House Publisher Services (Global excluding UK) Turnaround Publisher Services (UK)[1] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | Triangle Square, Siete Cuentos |
| Official website | sevenstories.com |
Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company. Based in New York City, the company was founded by Dan Simon in 1995, after establishing Four Walls Eight Windows in 1984 as an imprint at Writers and Readers, and then incorporating it as an independent company in 1986 together with then-partner John Oakes.[2][3] Seven Stories was named for its seven founding authors: Annie Ernaux, Gary Null, the estate of Nelson Algren, Project Censored, Octavia E. Butler, Charley Rosen, and Vassilis Vassilikos.[4]
Seven Stories Press is known for its mix of politics and literature, and for its children's books. As the publisher of a large catalogue of activist nonfiction and history from such authors as Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Greg Palast and Howard Zinn, Seven Stories has had a major influence on public debate with books on foreign policy, the politics of prisons, and voter theft, among other topics.[5] Prominent titles include Dark Alliance by Gary Webb, 9/11 by Noam Chomsky, A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut, and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. Innosanto Nagara's A is for Activist, Howard Zinn's A Young People's History of the United States, and Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?, among many other titles, have educated communities of young people on key aspects of American history. Greg Palast's books have set the standard for raising awareness of vote theft in our elections. Seven Stories has for decades published the annual media censorship guide, Censored, by Project Censored, and the World Report by Human Rights Watch. Seven Stories also publishes a wide range of literature, poetry, and translations in prose and poetry from French, Spanish, Icelandic, German, Swedish, Italian, Greek, Polish, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, and Arabic.[6]
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- ^ "CCCB/Participants Dan Simon". cccb.org/. Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- ^ Williams, Jesse Lynch; Norris, Edwin Mark (January 1, 1987). "Pawprints". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 88: 17–18. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- ^ Witherell, Amanda. Gaps in coverage. Reno News & Review. October 23, 2008.
- ^ "Seven Stories Celebrates 20 Years of Books on Social Justice".
- ^ "NBA Winners by Category, 1950 – 2015, National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards". nationalbook.org. Retrieved April 16, 2018.