Featured Business - Parkhurst Brothers Publishers

Marion is home to an award-winning, entrepreneurial book publishing company, Parkhurst Brothers Publishers, which publishes books by locals as well as writers from across the USA and Europe. The company, with offices at 110 West Main Street between Flemming Clothing and the Frosty Freeze, specializes in story collections, memoirs, and writing instructional titles mostly authored by professional and ethnic storytellers. Releasing ten to fourteen titles a year, the company has teamed with The University of Chicago Press as its main warehousing and distribution arm. Ted Parkhurst (MHS 1966) and Dr. Linda D. Parkhurst, who moved here from Missouri in 2013, run the company.