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Ticknor, William Davis, 1810–64, American publisher. John Reed and James T. Fields Annie Adams Fields, 1834–1915, a native of Boston, who also became a well-known author. Besides writing volumes of verse and biographies of Whittier (1893) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1897), she was famous for her literary salon in Boston.
..... Click the link for more information. became Ticknor's partners in Boston, and their firm is best known as Ticknor and Fields. They published the works of many of the famous Americans of the day, including Longfellow, Lowell, and O. W. Holmes, and their offices were the meeting place of literary men. From 1854 to 1864 the firm published the Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review. Ticknor was the first American publisher to pay foreign authors for the rights to their works.

Ticknor, William Davis (1810–64) publisher; born in Lebanon, N.H. In 1832 he founded the Boston firm that, with the able partnership of James Fields, became one of the most distinguished American publishing companies.