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title: "Harcourt: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. The company was last based in San Diego, California, with editorial/sales/marketing/rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida, and was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-harcourt
type: Organization
wikidata: Q5654997
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harcourt_(publisher)
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Harcourt

> Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. The company was last based in San Diego, California, with editorial/sales/marketing/rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida, and was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1919-01-01
- Headquarters: San Diego
- Status: private
- Also known as: Harcourt Brace, Harcourt Brace & Co., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harcourt, Brace & World, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, Harcourt, Inc.

## Key people

- Donald Brace, founder (American publisher (1881–1955))
- Alfred Harcourt, founder (American publisher (1881-1954))
- Robert Giroux (American book editor and publisher (1914–2008))

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Academic Press

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Harcourt, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-harcourt#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5654997, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harcourt_(publisher)

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