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15 unusual facts about St. Martin's Press


Colin Mason

A Short History of Asia: Stone Age to 2000 AD, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0-312-23060-9

Golden Crown Literary Society

In recent years, more than 130 titles from more than a three dozen publishers (such as Alyson, Bella Books, Bold Strokes Books, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Copper Canyon Press, Farrar Straus Giroux, Haworth, Regal Crest Enterprises, Spinsters Ink, and St. Martin's Press) were nominated for consideration.

Golden Guide

An updated series was relaunched in 2001 as "Golden Guides by St. Martin's Press".

Jason Peter

His book, Hero of the Underground: My Journey Down To Heroin & Back was published by St. Martin's Press.

Jenny Mollen

In January 2013, Mollen's signed with St. Martin's Press to write a book of comedic essays, I Like You Just The Way I Am.

Jerry Oppenheimer

His book Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty will be published by St. Martin's Press in July 2013.

Kurt Loder

In 2011, St. Martin's Press published Loder's The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st-Century Movie Reviews, which collected his film reviews from MTV.com and Reason.com.

Leon Hendrix

In 2012, Hendrix published an intimate biography of his brother titled Jimi Hendrix: A Brother's Story. It was co-written by Adam Mitchell and published by St. Martin's Press.

Marwat

Olaf Caroe, The Pathans : 550 B.C. – A.D. 1957, (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958).

Samuel C. Florman

St. Martin’s Press (A Thomas Dunne Book), 2001

St. Martin’s Press (A Thomas Dunne Book), 2012

St. Martin’s Press (A Thomas Dunne Book), 1996

Secret Court of 1920

A book-length study of the Court's work Harvard's Secret Court (St. Martin's Press, 2005) was written by William Wright.

Show Me!

However, starting in 1977, some states began to criminalize the distribution of even non-obscene so-called "child pornography," or "images of abuse," which arguably is not protected by the First Amendment. New York State, home of the publisher, St. Martin's Press, criminalized the distribution of non-obscene "child pornography" in 1977, but the publisher promptly went to court and obtained an injunction against the State.

The Little Prince and the Aviator

Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum, published by St. Martin's Press (1991), pages 29-31 (ISBN 0-312-06428-4)


Albert C. Martin, Sr.

It is also the home parish of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Allen Edward Everitt

He also illustrated J. B. Bunce's "History of old St. Martin's" (1875), the parish church of Birmingham.

Annie B. Martin

Born in Eastover, South Carolina to Jacob and Queenie Martin, the seventh of eight children, Martin was introduced as a small child by her father to labor activist A. Philip Randolph.

Augustus N. Martin

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

Barbara Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge

Mary Berkeley (bef. 1671 – 3 June 1741), married Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven on 27 May 1703 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Church, Covent Garden, London.

Bartolomeo Zaccaria

As the eldest son of "King" Martin, born into the Genoese Zaccaria family which rule Chios, Bartolomeo was a fitting match for the highborn Frankish heiress, who co-ruled with her mother, Maria dalle Carceri, and stepfather, Andrea Cornaro.

Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!

A companion book by St. Martin's Press and a soundtrack album by MCA Records were also released in conjunction with the video.

Church of Our Lady, Bruges

Its tower, at 122.3 meters in height, remains the tallest structure in the city and the second tallest brickwork tower in the world (the tallest being the St. Martin's Church in Landshut, Germany).

Concerning Mr. Martin

Concerning Mr. Martin is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Roy Kellino and starring Wilson Barrett, William Devlin and Marjorie Peacock.

David N. Martin

He also began painting after working with painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell on an ad campaign for Colonial Williamsburg.

Double Dragon Publishing

Authors include Gail Z. Martin, J.M. Frey, Danny Birt, Geoff Nelder, Simon Drake, Dan DeBono, Tony Teora, E. Rose Sabin, David Conway (founder of cult band "My Bloody Valentine"), Steve Lazarowitz, Michael A. Ventrella, Ben Manning, Margret A. Treiber and the late Nick Pollotta.

Douglas Martin

Douglas J. Martin (1927–2010), New Zealand leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Duane W. Martin

In the 2007 film Rescue Dawn, which told the story from Dengler's point of view, Martin was portrayed by actor Steve Zahn.

Eugene J. Martin

As a child, Eugene ran away on several occasions, was placed in reform school at six years of age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood on a farm in Clarksburg, Maryland where his foster parents were Franie and Madessa Snowdon.

Gail Z. Martin

Other influences included The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

George Barton House

The complex was commissioned by Darwin D. Martin an entrepreneur who worked at the Larkin Soap Company.

Glenn L. Martin

He worked up the courage however after persuasion by Paramount boss Adolph Zukor and completed the scene.

Graycliff

The Graycliff estate was the summer home of Isabelle R. Martin (1869–1945) and her husband, Buffalo entrepreneur Darwin D. Martin (1865–1935).

Hubert S. Martin

He was one of Baden-Powell's instructors at the first Wood Badge course held at Gilwell Park, on 8 to 19 September 1919.

James A. Martin

Just two weeks before Martin's death, he was visited by Ateneo de Manila University president Bienvenido Nebres, who gave him a jacket of the Ateneo basketball team that he had coached some 70 years earlier.

Joseph B. Martin

During his academic career he has been an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and has published over 325 articles.

Louis Chéron

In 1718, Chéron and John Vanderbank split from Godfrey Kneller's Great Queen Street Academy (where they were both teaching) to form their own St. Martin's Lane Academy.

Louis E. Martin

Born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, to Dr. Louis E. Martin Sr. and Willa Martin, Louis Jr. grew up in Savannah, Georgia.

Lower Brandon Plantation

Martin's new plantation built on the 1616 land grant was initially named "Martin's Brandon", apparently incorporating the family name of his wife, Mary (née Brandon) Martin, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

P. J. Mills

In 1975, Mills ran again for statewide office when Louisiana Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr., stepped down to run unsuccessfully for governor against Edwin Edwards and State Senator Robert G. Jones of Lake Charles, son of former Governor Sam Houston Jones.

Robert S. Martin

Dr. Martin has authored several publications and served on editorial boards of scholarly library journals such as American Archivist, The Library Quarterly, Libraries and Culture and Meridian.

Roger Martin

Roger H. Martin (born 1943), 14th president of Randolph-Macon College

Ryan Colucci

Along with Mike the Pike Productions, he is also attached to produce George R.R. Martin's The Skin Trade, the World Fantasy Award-Winning horror novella from the Dark Visions compilation book.

St. Martin, Minnesota

St. Martin was the setting for The Chicken Doesn't Skate, a children's novel by Canadian author Gordon Korman, in which a sixth-grade nerd is transplanted there from Los Angeles.

St. Martin's Church, Warsaw

It was established in 1353 together with the adjacent Augustinians cloister and a hospital of the Holy Spirit intra muros by Siemowit III duke of Masovia and his wife Eufemia.

Stephen Martin

Stephen J. Martin (born 1971), Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction

Steven Long

Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking in 2006, published by St. Martin's Paperbacks, covers the Utah murder of housewife Lori Hacking, whose body was left in a city dump.

Steven M. Martin

He made a documentary on Léon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, which was critically acclaimed.

Suomenlinna

George R. R. Martin wrote a short story about the surrender of Viapori, "The Fortress", when he was a college student.

Teeth Dreams

Featuring lyrics written by George R. R. Martin, "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" appeared in the HBO television series, Game of Thrones.

The Extreme Right in Europe and the USA

It was published in 1992 by St. Martin's Press in the U.S. (hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 0-312-08091-3) and by Pinter in London (ISBN 0-86187-790-X); it was reprinted, and retitled as The Extreme Right in Europe and the United States, by Palgrave Macmillan as a 256-page paperback in 1994 (ISBN 0-312-12224-1).

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

WMPA TV

All three shows borrowed material liberally from such television programs as “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,” “Saturday Night Live,” "The Benny Hill Show," "Late Night with David Letterman," and “Hee Haw.”

WYSIWYG

The phrase "What you see is what you get", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona "Geraldine" (from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974).