Horace Everett Hooper

Horace Everett Hooper (born Dec. 8, 1859, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died June 13, 1922, Bedford Hills, N.Y.) was a U.S. publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1897 until his death. He was a master salesman and an innovator in publishing. Hooper left school at the age of 16, clerked in bookstores for a time, and then went to Denver, Colo., where he organized the Western Book and Stationery Company to sell books in the western states. In...