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Farrar, Straus and Company was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus and John C. Farrar. In 1964 Robert Giroux’s name was added to the roster and the company became Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including twenty-five Nobel Prizes in Literature and numerous National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes. Nobel Prize winners include Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, T. S. Eliot, Pär Lagerkvist, François Mauriac, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nelly Sachs, Yasunari Kawabata, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, Elias Canetti, William Golding, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, Camilo José Cela, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Handke, and Louise Glück. Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list, which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, and Philip Larkin to Thom Gunn, Les Murray, Paul Muldoon, francine j. harris, Valzhyna Mort and Frank Bidart. Fiction has an even greater international reach, distinguished by Jamaica Kincaid, Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Peter Høeg, Amitav Ghosh, Roberto Bolaño, Denis Johnson, Marilynne Robinson, Bernard Malamud, Alice McDermott, Sheila Heti, Péter Nádas, Flannery O’Connor, Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Beatty, Susan Sontag, Rachel Cusk, Ben Lerner, André Aciman, and Mario Vargas Llosa. History, art history, natural history, current affairs, and science round out a strong list in nonfiction represented by Thomas Friedman, Philip Gourevitch, Daniel Kahneman, George Packer, Alex Ross, William Langewiesche, Evan Osnos, Gina Kolata, Louis Menand, and John McPhee, among others.

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The Containment

History
Another Man in the Street

General Fiction (Adult)
Lazarus Man

General Fiction (Adult)
Ignorance and Bliss

Religion & Spirituality
Stranger Than Fiction

History, Reference
V13

Biographies & Memoirs
Family Romance

Arts & Photography, History
Far District

Poetry & Verse
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

Nonfiction (Adult)
Roman Year

Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
My Good Bright Wolf

Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Mind & Body
Absolution

General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy
Linguaphile

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult), Professional & Technical
Annihilation

General Fiction (Adult)
Meditations for Mortals

Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help
The Black Utopians

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Position of Spoons

Biographies & Memoirs, Essays & Collections
Model Home

General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers
Salvage

Nonfiction (Adult), Reference
Q

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Containment

History
Another Man in the Street

General Fiction (Adult)
Lazarus Man

General Fiction (Adult)
Ignorance and Bliss

Religion & Spirituality
Stranger Than Fiction

History, Reference
V13

Biographies & Memoirs
Family Romance

Arts & Photography, History
Far District

Poetry & Verse
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

Nonfiction (Adult)
Roman Year

Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
My Good Bright Wolf

Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Mind & Body
Absolution

General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy
Linguaphile

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult), Professional & Technical
Annihilation

General Fiction (Adult)
Meditations for Mortals

Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help
The Black Utopians

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Position of Spoons

Biographies & Memoirs, Essays & Collections
Model Home

General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers
Salvage

Nonfiction (Adult), Reference
Q

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Containment

History
Another Man in the Street

General Fiction (Adult)
Lazarus Man

General Fiction (Adult)
Ignorance and Bliss

Religion & Spirituality
Stranger Than Fiction

History, Reference
V13

Biographies & Memoirs
Family Romance

Arts & Photography, History
Far District

Poetry & Verse
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

Nonfiction (Adult)
Roman Year

Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
My Good Bright Wolf

Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Mind & Body
Absolution

General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy
Linguaphile

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult), Professional & Technical
Annihilation

General Fiction (Adult)
Meditations for Mortals

Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help
The Black Utopians

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Position of Spoons

Biographies & Memoirs, Essays & Collections
Model Home

General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers
Salvage

Nonfiction (Adult), Reference
Q

Biographies & Memoirs, History