Charles Coffin Little

Charles Coffin Little (July 25, 1799 – August 11, 1869) was an American publisher. He is best known for co-founding Little, Brown and Company with James Brown.

Early life Charles Coffin Little was born on July 25, 1799, in Kennebunk, Maine.

Career Little arrived in Boston early in life. He entered a shipping house, He worked there until 1837, when he formed his partnership with James Brown under the style of Charles C. Little and Company. Little and Brown had previously been clerks, and were later partners, in a bookstore in Boston founded in 1784 by Ebenezer Battelle. The name of Little and Brown's firm was subsequently changed, due to the admission of other partners, to Little, Brown, and Co.

Personal life Little's daughter, Sarah Ellen Little, married Richard Aldrich McCurdy.

Death Little died on August 11, 1869, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 70.