Riverhead Books (Another division of Penguin Group)
- Sort Name
- Riverhead Books
- Type
- Publisher
- Area
- United States
- Date Founded
- 1994
- Date Dissolved
- ?
Wikipedia
Riverhead Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy.
Writers published by Riverhead include Ali Sethi, Marlon James, Junot Díaz, George Saunders, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, Anne Lamott, Carlo Rovelli, Randall Munroe, Patricia Lockwood, Sarah Vowell, the Dalai Lama, Chang-rae Lee, Meg Wolitzer, Dinaw Mengestu, Daniel Alarcón, Daniel H. Pink, Steven Johnson, Jon Ronson, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Gilbert, James McBride, Jing Tsu and C Pam Zhang.
Authors published by Riverhead won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for four out of its first six years. Four authors have won MacArthur Genius Grants and many writers Riverhead has published have given TED Talks. Riverhead authors have won PEN and other literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for writers of African descent, the Stonewall Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender fiction, and the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for the best young emerging voices. Four authors were included in The New Yorker's "20 under 40" list of young fiction writers. In 2019, Riverhead author Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The publisher of Riverhead is Geoffrey Kloske.
Editions
Name | Author Credits | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism | Timothy Keller | Paperback | 9781594483493 | 2009-08-04 |
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World | ? | Hardcover | 978-0399184482 | 2016-11-15 |
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe | Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson | eBook | 9780735211537 | 2017-04-18 |
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language | Gretchen McCulloch | eBook | 9780735210950 | 2019 |
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems | ? | Hardcover | 0525537090 | 2019-09-03 |
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- 2018-01-03