Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus was a London publisher whose origins lie in the Victorian era. Since 1987, Chatto & Windus is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

History

After living several years in America, opened the Briton John Camden Hotten in 1855 in London's Piccadilly street a small bookstore and founded his own publishing house. When he died in 1873, bought his former junior partner Andrew Chatto and the poet WE Windus the publisher of Hottens widow. One of the early successes of Chatto & Windus was the publication of the British edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Chattos human and of publishing skill had been able to win back the American writer, after Hotten had fallen out with him. In the following years, Chatto & Windus sat down next to Mark Twain, many other eminent writers under contract, for example, WS Gilbert, Wilkie Collins, HG Wells, Richard Aldington, Frederick Rolfe, Aldous Huxley and Samuel Beckett. The famous unfinished novel The Lords of Hermiston (1896 ) by Robert Louis Stevenson was released as of Chatto & Windus as the first English translation of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time.

Acquisitions

1946 Chatto & Windus took over the Virginia and Leonard Woolf founded 1917 Verlag Hogarth Press. In 1969 Chatto & Windus its role as an independent publishing house and was merged with the established 1921 Publisher Jonathan Cape. The group bought the publishers The Bodley Head and Virago Press, before it was taken over in 1987 by Random House, and merged in 1997 with Sinclair - Stevenson.

Program

As an imprint of Random House Publishing Group Chatto & Windus published, among other contemporary international fiction writers and literary biographies, memoirs and poetry. Authors include AS Byatt, Michelle de Kretser, Anita Desai, David Malouf, Javier Marias, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Irene Nemirovsky, Amos Oz, Atiq Rahimi, Tremain and Anne Tyler, Fannie Flagg, Margaret Forster, Arthur Golden, Susan Hill, Mary Lawson and Richard Russo.