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Best Biographies & Memoirs Book Publishing Companies

Showing 130 publishers that match your search.

Amazon Crossing Kids

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, BIPOC, Children's, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Middle Grade, Narrative Nonfiction, and Nonfiction

Part of: Amazon Publishing > Amazon Crossing Kids

Location: Seattle, US

Website: https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com/amazon-crossing-kids.html

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
A Sari for Ammi

Mamta Nainy

The Night Raven

Johan Rundberg

Piece by Piece

David Aguilar & Ferran Aguilar

Amsterdam Publishers

Amsterdam Publishers is an independent publisher based in the Netherlands. It publishes in English, and is the premier international publisher of Holocaust memoirs in Europe. Submissions must be a minimum of 60, 000 words long.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs and Jewish Literature

Location: Amsterdam, NL

Website: https://amsterdampublishers.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story

Nechama Birnbaum

The Apprentice of Buchenwald

Oren Schneider

Save my Children

Leon Kleiner

Indus Source Books

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Business, History, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs, Health & Wellbeing, and Nonfiction

Location: Mumbai, IN

Website: https://www.indussource.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Mindful Conception and Gratifying Parenthood

Arundhati Hoskeri

Rani Laxmibai

Pratibha Ranade

Leader: 50 Insights from Mythology

Devdutt Pattanaik

Mariner Books

Genres: Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Part of: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt > Mariner Books

Location: Boston, US

Website: https://www.hmhbooks.com/imprints/mariner-books

Accepts unagented submissions

No

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💥 Hit titles
Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Fun Home

Alison Bechdel

On the Plain of Snakes

Paul Theroux

Rosen Publishing

Genres: African-American, Education & Reference, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Picture Book, Politics, History, Sports & Outdoors, Math & Science, Biographies & Memoirs, Law, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Nonfiction, and Children's

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.rosenpublishing.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

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💥 Hit titles
Climate Change

Char Light

Will the Word Eater

Roger Rosen

The Geography of South Asia

Rachael Morlock

Koren Publishers

Genres: Jewish Literature, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality, and Nonfiction

Location: Hartford, US

Website: https://korenpub.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Koren Talpiot Shabbat Humash

Emanuel Cover

Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures: Rejection or Integration

Jacob J. Schacter

A City In Its Fullness

S.Y. Agnon

City Lights Publishers

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Politics, Women's Fiction, Travel, African-American, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Story

Location: San Francisco, US

Website: http://www.citylights.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Dispatches from the Race War

Tim Wise

Danger and Beauty

Jessica Hagedorn

OSU Press

Genres: Environmental, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Education & Reference, and Nonfiction

Location: Portland, US

Website: https://osupress.oregonstate.edu

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Touching the Leviathan

Peter Wayne Moe

Canyon, Mountain, Cloud

Tyra A. Olstad

Trees to Know in Oregon and Washington

Edward C. Jensen

Second Story Press

Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, History, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction, Feminism, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Jewish Literature, Health & Wellbeing, Diverse Literature, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Children's, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Location: Toronto, CA

Website: https://secondstorypress.ca/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, LGBTQ, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Birds That Stay

Ann Lambert

The Butterfly Effect

Eve Zaremba

The Abortion Caravan

Karin Wells

Persea Books

Genres: Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics, Feminism, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Children's, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Story, Poetry, and Novella

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.perseabooks.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Town Crier

Sarah Matthes

Gateway to Paradise

Matthew Vollmer

Dispatch Poems

Cam Awkward-Rich

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