biography
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Putnam, George Palmer
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| lived:
| (1814–72)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Brunswick, Maine, USA. He went to London in 1840 and opened a branch bookshop selling American books. In 1848 he returned to the USA and founded a book-publishing business, established in 1866 as the firm of G P Putnam & Sons. In 1853 he founded Putnam's Monthly Magazine. |
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