About Frederick T. Courtright and The Permissions Company

Fred Courtright has worked in the copyright permissions field for over eighteen years. Before starting The Permissions Company in 1997, he held the position of Permissions Manager at W. W. Norton & Company and Permissions Coordinator at Macmillan Publishing Company.

The Permissions Company is located in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. We conduct most of our business by e-mail, phone, or fax, but we are also available to meet with you in person in New York City and the surrounding areas.

Permissions granting

The Permissions Company currently administers rights for the following publishers, estates, and agents:

Publishers
Ahsahta Press
Alice James Books
Ausable Press
Autumn House Press
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Coffee House Press
Confluence Press
Copper Canyon Press
The Feminist Press
Four Way Books
Firebrand Books
Green Integer Books/Sun & Moon Press
Holy Cow! Press
Howard University Press
Health Communications, Inc. including Counselor Magazine
Marick Press
New Rivers Press
Nightboat Books
Oberlin College Press
Paris Press
Sarabande Books
Seven Stories Press
Snow Lion Publications
University of Arkansas Press
Verse Press/Wave Books
West End Press
White Pine Press

Literary Estates
Estate of Angel Flores
Estate of Arthur Waley
Estate of Katherine Anne Porter
Estate of W. E. B. Du Bois
Estate of Melvin B. Tolson

Agents
Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency

Permissions seeking
The Permissions Company has completed permissions seeking projects for the following textbook publishers:
Academic Press
Bedford/St. Martin's
Elsevier
Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pearson Education (including Prentice-Hall, Longman, and Allyn & Bacon)
Lanahan Books
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Worth Publishers
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Trade publishers for whom we have recently obtained permissions include:
Random House, Inc.
Bookspan
Harcourt Trade
Hyperion
Penguin
Contemporary Books
Fireside
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
HarperCollins Publishers
Health Communications, Inc.
Spotlight/Simon & Schuster
The Lyons Press
Warner Books

References are available upon request.