the religious publisher Zondervan, including subsidiary Marshall Pickering. HarperCollins (1990–present) Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (now News Corp) acquired Harper & Row in 1987, and William Collins, Sons in 1990. The names of these two national publishing houses (Harper & Row in the United States and Collins in the United Kingdom) were combined (along with the Harper's torch icon and Collins' fountain icon) to create HarperCollins. The company has since expanded its international reach with further acquisitions of formerly independent publishers. The Harper imprint began being used in place of HarperCollins in 2007. Paperbacks After the purchase of Harper & Row by News Corporation, HarperCollins launched a new mass market paperback line to complement its existing trade paperback Perennial imprint. It was known as Harper Paperbacks from 1990 to 2000, HarperTorch from 2000 to 2006, and Harper from 2007 to the present. Authors and illustrators (selected) Robert C. Binkley Jiddu Krishnamurti Margaret Wise Brown Gwendolyn Brooks Agatha Christie Paulo Coelho Arthur Conan Doyle A.B. Frost Stephen Fry Anna Godbersen John Gray Zane Grey John Gunther Thomas Hardy Syd Hoff Arthur Holmes Erin Hunter Aldous Huxley Henry James Crockett Johnson Bruce Judson Harper Lee Martin Luther King Jr. Barbara Kingsolver Ruth Krauss Ursula K. Le Guin Armistead Maupin André Maurois Herman Melville Caroline Pafford Miller Peter G. Miller Dick Morris Sarah Palin Lincoln Peirce Howard Pyle Leland M. Roth Laura Schlessinger Maurice Sendak Sara Shepard Shel Silverstein Betty Smith Lemony Snicket Howard Spring Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Mark Twain Charles Dudley Warner E. B. White Simon Winchester Laura Ingalls Wilder Thornton Wilder Richard Wright See also Books in the United States Brooks Thomas Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises The Long Short Cut References Further reading Barnes, James J. "Edward Lytton Bulwer and the Publishing Firm of Harper & Brothers". American Literature (1966): 35–48. in JSTOR D'Amato, Martina. "'The Harper Establishment'; or, How a New York Publishing Giant Was Made". Exman, Eugene. The brothers Harper: a unique publishing partnership and its impact upon the cultural life of America from 1817 to 1853 (Harper & Row, 1965) Mellman, John A. (2017), "The Harper Torchbooks Series: A History and Personal Assessment", publishinghistory.com. Primary sources External links Official website (US) Official website (UK) The Harper Brothers Founders of Harper Brothers Publishing Finding aid to Harper & Brothers records and Harper & Row Publishers records at Columbia University. Rare