Sheed and Ward published a number of major
Roman Catholic authors of the 1920s through to the mid-twentieth century, including
G. K. Chesterton,
Hilaire Belloc,
Christopher Dawson,
Vincent McNabb,
Leo J. Trese,
Ronald Knox and
Etienne Gilson. In the early 1930s Sheed and Ward operated the Catholic Book a Month Club. In 1973, Sheed and Ward was acquired by the
Universal Press Syndicate; the company was used as the base of the publisher
Andrews McMeel. However, the Sheed and Ward name and backlist were later divested. The company was owned by the
National Catholic Reporter from 1986 to 1998, when it was sold to the
Priests of the Sacred Heart. The United States assets were acquired by
Rowman & Littlefield in 2002, and the United Kingdom assets by the
Continuum International Publishing Group, which has since been subsumed into
Bloomsbury Publishing. The company archives of the New York office from 1933 to 1977 are kept at the
University of Notre Dame. ==Book series==