Farrar, Straus
& Giroux Books

LITERARY EXCELLENCE

LITERATURE

Farrar, Straus and Giroux — American literary publishing house founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. Robert Giroux joined from Harcourt, Brace in 1955, bringing seventeen authors including T.S. Eliot, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud, and the company was renamed in his honor in 1964. FSG authors have won twenty-five Nobel Prizes in Literature, including Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, Pablo Neruda, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Louise Glück. The house has maintained its reputation for literary excellence while publishing numerous National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winners. A division of Macmillan since 1994, FSG is led by president Mitzi Angel since 2021.