Greenwood Publishing Group

Parent company	ABC-CLIO
Status	Active
Founded	1967
Founder	Harold Mason
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Westport, Connecticut
Distribution	Worldwide
Nonfiction topics	Reference works, scholarly and general interest, library and teaching materials
Imprints	Greenwood Press (reference works) Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest) Libraries unlimited (for libraries and teachers)
Official website	www.greenwood.com

Greenwood Publishing Group (GPG) is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO. Established in 1967, Greenwood Publishing Group publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers. Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.^[1]

History[link]

The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. The company initially focused on reprinting out-of-print works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association’s first edition of Books for College Libraries (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print periodicals published as American Radical Periodicals under the Greenwood Reprint imprint. In 1969 the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a company then on the American Stock Exchange, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.

By 1970 a small scholarly monograph program was established and Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a division of Academic Press, was hired as Vice President. In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left the company, and Hagelstein was named President, a position he would hold until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities diverting its focus to new scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of the company resulted in the publication of more than 10,000 titles during those years.

On August 25, 1976 the company was sold to the Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) and in 1979 became part of the Dutch publishing giant, Elsevier, following Elsevier’s purchase of CIS. That same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in business and law.

On January 1, 1986 GPG expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded by Frederick A. Praeger in 1949,^[2] from CBS, Inc., and in 1989 when it acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House.

At the beginning of 1990 the company’s name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc. to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of Reed Elsevier, and by the mid-1990’s the operational part of GPG joined with Heinemann USA, which had been part of Reed.

When Hagelstein retired at the end of 1999, Wayne Smith was named President. Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG’s on line and CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.

On July 12, 2001, Reed Elsevier completed its acquisition of Harcourt. Harcourt became a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier and GPG became part of Harcourt Education.

On December 13, 2007 GPG became part of Houghton Mifflin Co. as a result of Houghton’s acquisition of Harcourt.^[3]

On October 1, 2008, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt granted ABC-CLIO of Santa Barbara, California a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of GPG, excluding Heinemann. The offices in Westport, Connecticut closed as a result.^[4]

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• Company home page
• FolkLib Index - Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press - all 205 known books published 1982-2005
• "List of Radical Periodicals in the United States (Reissued 1968-70)." - list of the 109 radical periodicals reissued by Greenwood.

Bruce Greenwood
Greenwood at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Stuart Bruce Greenwood (1956-08-12) August 12, 1956 (age 55) Noranda, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Actor, Musician
Years active	1977–present
Spouse	Susan Devlin (1985-present)

Stuart Bruce Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is generally known for his roles as U.S. presidents in Thirteen Days and National Treasure: Book of Secrets and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek film. He has appeared in several supporting roles, such as Hollywood Homicide, Double Jeopardy, Déjà Vu, I, Robot, Dinner for Schmucks, Capote and most recently as the motion capture alien dubbed "Cooper" in Super 8. He has also dabbled in voice acting, contributing to the Canadian animated series Class of the Titans as Chiron and the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Young Justice.

Personal life[link]

Greenwood was born Stuart Bruce Greenwood in Noranda, Quebec,^[1] the son of Mary Sylvia (née Ledingham), a nurse who worked in an extended care unit, and Hugh John Greenwood, a Vancouver-born geophysicist and teacher who taught at Princeton University.^[2] He is married to Susan Devlin^[2] and lives in Los Angeles.^[3]

Career[link]

Greenwood is known in the United States for his appearances in Star Trek, I, Robot, Double Jeopardy, The Core, Thirteen Days (in which he played president John F. Kennedy), Capote (in which he played Jack Dunphy, Truman Capote's lover), Eight Below (in which he played Professor Davis McClaren) and Firehouse Dog.

He had prominent roles in the award winning Atom Egoyan films Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, and Ararat. He appeared in the 1980s teen cult film The Malibu Bikini Shop and starred in Mee-Shee: The Water Giant. He played a role in The World's Fastest Indian and also featured in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There. He recently appeared in Dinner for Schmucks as a cruel finance executive who hosts a dinner for "idiots".

On television, Greenwood had roles on St. Elsewhere (Dr. Seth Griffin, 1986–1988), Knots Landing (Pierce Lawton, 1991–1992) and a starring role in the UPN series Nowhere Man (Thomas Veil, 1995–1996). He also guest starred on the popular Canadian show Road to Avonlea for one episode. He won a Gemini Award for this role as "Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor".

On June 10, 2007, HBO's John from Cincinnati premiered, starring Greenwood. Greenwood also appears as the President of the United States in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. He played the Beach Boys drummer, Dennis Wilson, in Summer Dreams: Story of the Beach Boys. In 2009, he worked with Australian director Bruce Beresford he played the part of Ben Stevenson (Artistic Director of Houston Ballet) in the critically acclaimed film, Mao's Last Dancer.

Greenwood voiced Batman in the animated film, Batman: Under the Red Hood. He also voices the character in the Young Justice animated series.^[4][5]

Greenwood played the lead role in the horror thriller Cell 213.^[6] He is the lead for the Steven Spielberg produced 2012 ABC series The River and will reprise his role as Admiral Christopher Pike for the next J. J. Abrams Star Trek feature film.

Filmography[link]

Greenwood at the 39th Primetime Emmy Awards, 1987

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bruce Greenwood at the Internet Movie Database
• Bruce Greenwood at AllRovi
• Bruce Greenwood at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood signing books at the launch of Forbidden Fruit
Born	Kerry Greenwood 17 June 1954 Melbourne
Occupation	Writer, locum solicitor
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Genres	Crime, historical, science-fiction
Notable work(s)	Phryne Fisher series
Notable award(s)	Multiple, see below
Partner(s)	Registered wizard
Children	None

Kerry Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria^[1]) is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard".

Awards and nominations[link]

• Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Division, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner for The Broken Wheel
• Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 2002: honour book for A Different Sort of Real : The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919
• Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2002: winner for The Three-Pronged Dagger
• Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2003: nominated for The Wandering Icon
• Davitt Award, Best Adult Novel, 2003: nominated for Murder in Montparnasse : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Lifetime Contribution, 2003
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Queen of the Flowers : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books, 2006: shortlisted for Journey to Eureka
• Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2006: joint winner for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
• Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2007: joint winner for Devil's Food
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2008: nominated for Trick or Treat

Books[link]

Phryne Fisher historical mysteries[link]

Corinna Chapman mysteries[link]

Delphic Women[link]

• Cassandra (1995)
• Electra (1996)
• Medea (1997)

Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)[link]

• The Bold and The Brave (2000)

Stormbringer[link]

The Broken Wheel, Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer refer to events in those books, but are otherwise independent.

• The Rat and the Raven (2005)
• Lightning Nest (2006)
• Ravens Rising (2006)

Novels[link]

Collections[link]

• Recipes for Crime (1995) (with Jenny Pausacker)

Anthologies edited[link]

• Bad to the Bones (2002)

Short fiction[link]

"Jetsam" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)

Non-fiction[link]

• On Murder (2000)
• On Murder 2 (2002)

TV and film[link]

The Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries television series was filmed in and around Melbourne in 2011 and premiered on ABC1 on 24 February 2012.^[3]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Phyrne Fisher's website
• Corinna Chapman's website
• Interview with Kerry Greenwood at Allen & Unwin
• Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, "Kerry Greenwood's 'Rewriting' of Agatha Christie", JASAL 7 (2007)
• "On the couch with Kerry Greenwood". The Age. 14 August 2003. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/13/1060588441841.html. Retrieved 2008-06-15. 
• "Getting Feral With Kerry". Diverse Universe. September 2003. http://www.spacedoutinc.org/DU-17/KerryGreenwoodInterview.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "George Negus Tonight with Kerry Greenwood". ABC. 23 February 2004. http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s1051040.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "Death by Water - Review". The Age. 26 June 2005. http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/death-by-water/2005/06/25/1119321938129.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "Crime According to Kerry Greenwood". Kathleen Fisher's Tiny Purple Fish blog. September 2007. http://tinypurplefishphotography.blogspot.com/2007/10/crime-according-to-kerry-greenwood.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
• "Author Interview: Kerry Greenwood". Sydney Writers' Centre blog. 19 October 2007. http://thestorysofar.typepad.com/valeries_blog/2007/10/author-intervie.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 

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Kendall Williams (born July 3, 1991) is an American college basketball player for the New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team. Born in Rancho Cucamonga, California, Williams was the starting shooting guard for the Lobos during his freshman season, garnering attention for his high-level of play and freshman success. With the departure of four-year starting point guard Dairese Gary, Williams is predicted to have a more prominent role during his sophomore year,^[1] most likely as the starting point guard.^[2]

High school[link]

Williams attended Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California, as a three-year starter while being a first team all-state and two-time all-CIF selection for the Grizzlies.^[3] During his senior year at Los Osos, Williams averaged 22.4 points per game, 4.8 assists per game and 2.9 steals per game to go along with 7.8 rebounds per game^[4] including 40 points in a 73-75 loss against Upland High School when he was 14 of 26 from the floor and 11 of 13 from the line.^[3] Williams was also a scrappy rebounder, posting double-digit boards ten times, including 13 in a game against Vista Murrieta and another contest versus Arcadia. He also was a prolific pick-pocketer, nabbing four or more steals ten times.^[3] Williams was a spectacular student at Los Osos, maintaining a 3.7 cumulative GPA for his high school career.

College[link]

UCLA[link]

While still a tenth grader at Los Osos HS, Williams verbally committed to the University of California, Los Angeles to play in 2010.^[5] While there was some skepticism concerning Williams early decision to attend UCLA, The Los Angeles Times reported that "[t]hose close to Williams say they are confident that his commitment will work out for both" Williams and UCLA.^[6] Still, within two years of committing to UCLA, Williams de-committed, as he "indicated that he felt UCLA wasn't a good fit anymore".^[7]

New Mexico[link]

Freshman Year, 2010-2011[link]

After decommitting from UCLA in June 2009, Williams quickly found a home in New Mexico^[8] in March 2010, and blossomed into a reliable player for Steve Alford's Lobos squad. Williams scored a career-high 20 points in a December 17, 2010 91-54 decision against Longwood University and posted a double-double against Colorado on December 22, putting up 18 points and 11 assists in a 89-76 win. Williams also jockeyed for scoring leader for the Lobos, and consistently dished out the second most assists on the team (behind Dairese Gary). In addition, Williams both maintained one of the top six assist-to-turnover ratios (2.15 assists to turnovers) in the Mountain West Conference, and led the conference in three-point shooting percentage, both incredible feats for a true freshman. On March 7, 2011, Williams was selected as the Mountain West Conference Freshman of the Year after averaging 10.1 points per game and 3.7 assists per game.^[9] In his first collegiate postseason game, Williams led the Lobos in scoring with a 16-point performance against Colorado State in a 67-61 victory.

Sophomore Year, 2011-2012[link]

Prior to the start of the 2011-2012 college basketball season, Williams was ranked the tenth best mid-major point guard in the nation^[10] and the seventeenth best point guard overall in the nation.^[11] Williams was also noted to be one of the forty breakthrough players for the 2011-12 season by Bleacher Report,^[2] and one of twenty breakout players by Ballin' is a Habit.^[12] He was also picked as a Wooden Award preseason watch list snub,^[13] and substantiated that argument by being selected to the 2011-12 Mountain West Preseason All-Conference Team.^[14][15] During the middle of non-conference play, Williams was named one of 65 candidates for the Bob Cousy Award, which recognizes the nation's best point guard.^[16]

Despite not having the same prolific start as during his freshman year,^[17] Williams duplicated a number of his freshman stats, including points, assists, and minutes. Nonetheless, Williams recorded double-digits points in six of the first ten non-conference games, including a season-high 19 in a 76-60 victory over Missouri St., and 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists in a 76-71 win at Arizona St.

Playing Style[link]

ESPN called Williams "a multifaceted, offensive player" in their January 2010 scouting report,^[18] noting his long-range skills (shooting over 45% from beyond the arc) and lane-driving capabilities. ESPN lauded Williams's "ability to handle physical play when finishing in the lane" and was called a "high major prospect" by Scouthoops.com.^[19] His defense is characterized as tenacious and has been called by UNM Head Coach Steve Alford one of the fastest players he has ever coached.

References[link]

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hoffman in October 2011
Born	(1967-07-23) July 23, 1967 (age 44) Fairport, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1991–present
Partner	Mimi O'Donnell (1999–present)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films. He gradually gained recognition for his supporting work in a series of notable films, including Scent of a Woman (1992), Twister (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), and Mission: Impossible III (2006).

In 2005, Hoffman played the title role in the biographical film Capote (2005), for which he won multiple acting awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He received another two Academy Award nominations for his supporting work in Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and Doubt (2008). Other critically acclaimed films in recent years have included Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Savages (2007) and Synecdoche, New York (2008). In 2010, Hoffman made his feature film directorial debut with Jack Goes Boating‎.

Hoffman is also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, and has directed and performed in numerous stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays led to three Tony Award nominations: two for Best Leading Actor in True West (2000) and Death of a Salesman (2012); one for Best Featured Actor in Long Day's Journey into Night (2003).

Early life[link]

Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York, the son of Marilyn L. O'Connor, a family court judge, lawyer, and civil rights activist, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a former Xerox executive.^[1] He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, and a brother, Gordy Hoffman, who scripted the 2002 film Love Liza, in which Philip starred. His father was a Protestant of part German ancestry and his mother was of Irish Catholic background; Hoffman was not raised with a deep commitment to either religion.^[2][3][4] Hoffman's parents divorced when he was nine years old.^[5]

Hoffman attended the 1984 Theater School at the New York State Summer School of the Arts. After graduating from Fairport High School, Hoffman attended the Circle in the Square Theatre's summer program, continuing his acting training with the acting teacher Alan Langdon.^[6] He received a BFA in drama in 1989 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. At NYU, he was a founding member of the theater company the Bullstoi Ensemble with actor Steven Schub and director Bennett Miller.^[7] Soon after graduating, he went to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction and has since remained sober.^[8]

Career[link]

Film and television work[link]

Hoffman in 2002 Promoting Punch Drunk Love

Hoffman's first role was as a defendant in the 1991 Law & Order episode "The Violence of Summer". He made his film breakthrough in 1992 when he appeared in four feature films, with the most successful film being Scent of a Woman, in which he played an unscrupulous classmate of Chris O'Donnell's character. He had been stocking shelves at a city grocery store at the time before landing the role and credits the film with kickstarting his career.

Hoffman has established a successful and respected film career playing diverse and idiosyncratic characters in supporting roles, working with a wide variety of noted directors, including Todd Solondz, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, David Mamet, Robert Benton, Anthony Minghella and Paul Thomas Anderson; notably, he has appeared in four out of five of Anderson's feature films to date (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch-Drunk Love).

He appeared in The Party's Over, a documentary about the 2000 US elections. Throughout his career he has rarely been given a chance to play the lead role. In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide in Love Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, wrote the screenplay. In 2003, he played the lead role in Owning Mahowny as a bank employee who embezzles money to feed his gambling addiction.

Hoffman has continued to play supporting roles in such films as Cold Mountain, as a carnally obsessed preacher, Along Came Polly, as Ben Stiller's crude, has-been actor buddy, and Mission: Impossible III, as villainous arms dealer Owen Davian out to kill Ethan Hunt.

Hoffman in September 2010.

He received his first Emmy Award nomination for the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, but lost to castmate and personal idol Paul Newman. One of Hoffman's earliest roles was as a police deputy who gets punched in the face by Newman in 1994's Nobody's Fool. He received a second Emmy Award nomination for the Daytime Emmy Awards for his vocal work on the TV Series Arthur.

In 2005, Hoffman won widespread acclaim for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in the film Capote. His performance received numerous high-profile accolades and awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, he was also awarded Best Actor by at least ten film critic associations, including the National Board of Review, Toronto Film Critics, and Los Angeles Film Critics.

In 2007, Hoffman was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Gust Avrakotos, a CIA officer who helps Congressman Charlie Wilson support a covert war in Afghanistan in the movie Charlie Wilson's War. In 2008, he was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role, which he lost to Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men.

In 2008, he appeared in Synecdoche, New York, in which he played Caden Cotard, a man who attempts to build a scale replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play, and Doubt, in which he played Father Brendan Flynn, a priest accused of sexually abusing a student. He received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for the latter. He also received a second consecutive nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Doubt.

Theater work[link]

Hoffman has also won acclaim for his work in the theater. He joined the LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, and has staged and performed in numerous productions.

As a director, Hoffman has received two Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play: one for Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train in 2001; another for Our Lady of 121st Street in 2003. Of the difference between acting and directing in a play, Hoffman has said that "the director’s experience is not the real experience...You are the most subjective person in the room. You have no objectivity. You have to take a couple of weeks off and then come back to watch it without telling anyone, and you will see it with different eyes."^[9]

As an actor, he first gained recognition in 2000 for the Off-Broadway play The Author's Voice, receiving a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On Broadway, Hoffman starred in the 2000 revival of True West and the 2003 revival of Long Day's Journey into Night, both leading to Tony Award nominations.^[10]

In 2012, Hoffman starred in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, prompting the New York Times critic to conclude "that Mr. Hoffman is one of the finest actors of his generation is beyond dispute."^[11] He received his third Tony Award nomination as Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Personal life[link]

Hoffman is in a relationship with costume designer Mimi O'Donnell. They met while working on the 1999 play In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, which Hoffman directed. They have a son, Cooper Alexander, born in March 2003, and two daughters, Tallulah, born in November 2006,^[12] and Willa, born in October 2008.^[13]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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