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Edit Reversion
Reverting edits made by user Nyfly2 (note: User is of no connection to NYFly) and by IP 108.27.222.198 due to multiple errors of both structure and content.

Structure: All references in the text are broken. Each reference number is repeated in the External Links section. References section is missing.

Content: Several factual items are not supported by the references.


 * 1) Reference to Adweek.com article clearly states that Nitro had 300 employees at the time of being acquired by Sapient, not 700.
 * 2) Reference to January 28, 2001 press release from Sapient clearly states that Clarke was "executive director and co-chief creative officer" of  SapientNitro, a "part of Sapient"; no reliable source or press release indicates that he was ever "Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer" of either the division SapientNitro or its parent company Sapient as the recent edits would indicate.
 * 3) Sale of Sapient to Publicis is not relevant in any known way to Clarke, who had left the division "SapientNitro" by the time of the transaction, and was not then or at any other known time part of the corporate leadership of parent company Sapient.

For these reasons, I have reverted back to the last clean version from 29 May 2018.

Separately, I encourage Nyfly2 to become familiar with the How to edit a page and WP:NOTPROMOTION pages. I'm not saying Nyfly2 is or is not doing this, but "Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion."NYFly 0:51, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Notable books
HarperCollins maintains the backlist of many of the books originally published by their many merged imprints, in addition to having picked up new authors since the merger. Authors published originally by Harper include Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters and William Makepeace Thackeray. Authors published originally by Collins include H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie and J. R. R. Tolkien. This is a list of some of the more noted books, and series, published by HarperCollins and their various imprints and merged publishing houses.

The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm (1956)
 * Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian (1970) (adapted into the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
 * the Leaphorn and Chee books, Tony Hillerman (1970–2006)
 * Collins English Dictionary (1979), a major dictionary

Harper Children's Books
Children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, overseeing the publication of classics such as Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Charlotte's Web, Beverly Cleary's series starring Ramona Quimby, and Harold and the Purple Crayon. They were the publishing home of Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown. In 1998, Nordstrom's personal correspondence was published as Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (illustrated by Maurice Sendak), edited by Charlotte Zolotow. Zolotow began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom, became her protege, and went on to write more than 80 books and edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's The Secret Language and the works of Paul Fleischman. Zolotow later became head of the Children's Books Department, and went on to become the company's first female Vice-President.

The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, while not originally published by a merged imprint of HarperCollins, were acquired by the publisher.

HarperCollins has published the following notable children's books:


 * the I Can Read! series for beginning readers, including the Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parish), Frog and Toad (Arnold Lobel) and Little Bear (Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak) books
 * the Warriors series
 * A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Award Winners

 * The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (2009): Hugo Award Best Novel, Nebula Award Best Novel, the Compton Crook Award, and Locus Award Best First Novel
 * Mo Yan: Nobel Prize in Literature, 2012. Titles published in English by Skyhorse Publishing are The Republic of Wine (2000), Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh (2001), Big Breasts and Wide Hips (2004), Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2008), and The Garlic Ballads (2012)
 * Double Exposure, Bridget Birdsall (2014): Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold in Gay / Lesbian / Bi / Trans Fiction

Best Sellers
Skyhorse has published the following titles that have made The New York Times bestseller list.


 * The Battle for Leyte Gulf, C. Vann Woodward (2007)
 * American Conspiracies, Jesse Ventura (2010)
 * 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, Jesse Ventura (2011)
 * The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg (2011)
 * Auschwitz, Miklós Nyiszli (2011)
 * Brigades of Gettysburg, Bradley M. Gottfried (2012)
 * 366 Days of Abraham Lincoln's Presidency, Stephen A. Wynalda (2014)