When four partners launched Steerforth Press in 1994, its first catalog featured "Manifesto for a New Press" which declared "Our interests fall into no category, no field, no niche; our tests of a book's worth are whether it has been written well, is intended to engage the full attention of the reader, and has something new or important to say." Our commitment to high quality general interest publishing has been unwavering and the books we have published demonstrate that a small independent house, publishing with sophistication and energy, can have an outsized impact on our culture and society. The Steerforth Press imprint remains the company's primary frontlist, hardcover line, and is also the paperback home for its most enduring works of nonfiction.