Famous Publishers

• Beach, Sylvia

  The Paris bookstore owner who published 'Ulysses'

• Breitbart, Andrew

  The right-wing activist who brought down Rep. Anthony Weiner

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

  Beat poet/publisher and co-founder of City Lights Books

• Forbes, Steve

  Publisher of Forbes magazine

• Garfield, Eugene

  Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information

• Garrison, William Lloyd

  Civil War-era abolitionist who published The Liberator

• Graham, Katharine

  Publisher of the Washington Post

• Hearst, William Randolph

  Founder of the Hearst newspaper chain

• Hefner, Hugh

  Founder of the Playboy empire

• Kennedy, John Jr.

  JFK's son who also died young

• Maxwell, Robert

  Disgraced publisher of the Daily Mirror

• Pulitzer, Joseph

  Newspaperman who started the Pulitzer Prize

• Scaife, Richard

  Financial backer of U.S. conservative political causes

• Stewart, Martha

  The host of Martha Stewart's Living who was convicted of stock hanky-panky

• Wenner, Jann

   Founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine

See: Index by Occupation