Viking Press
Viking Press is an American publishing house, which is part of the Publishing Group Penguin Group since 1975.
Company History
The publishing house was founded on March 1, 1925 in New York City by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. Your founding motto was:
"To publish a strictly limited list of good nonfiction, : such as biography, history and works on contemporary affairs, and distinguished fiction with some claim to permanent, importance rather than ephemeral popular interest. "
" Publishing a strictly limited list of good non-fiction books, such as biographies, history books and works of contemporary literature or excellent fiction of lasting importance and public interest. "
In the late 1930s, well-known editors like Pascal Covici or John Steinbeck joined the company. Following the publication of the first novel by Steinbeck, the publisher 1938/39, The Grapes of Wrath and the first American edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake or Graham Greene's Brighton Rock brought out. Steinbeck and Greene worked together over many years with Viking Press.
From 1949 was published by the death of a Salesman and The Crucible of American playwright Arthur Miller. Saul Bellow had his third novel, The Adventures of Augie March, in 1953 won the National Book Award and embarrassed more award-winning novels by Viking Press, 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. From 1957 to Viking Press brought out classic novels by Jack Kerouac as On the Road or Dharma Bums.
In the following decades was published by Books of William S. Burroughs, Hannah Arendt, Peter Matthiessen, Barbara Tuchman, Wallace Stegner, Octavio Paz, Kingsley Amis, Robert Coover, Lawrence Durrell, Frederick Forsyth, and won Thomas Pynchon ( his novel Gravity's Rainbow 1973 National Book Award). In 1975, Viking was sold to Penguin Books in England. The name of the publisher was thus changed to Viking Penguin.
In the early 1980s, Viking brought out books of the most innovative and popular writers of this period. Including Stephen King, Phillip Roth, Terry McMillan, TC Boyle, Bruce Chatwin, Don DeLillo ( whose novel White Noise won the 1985 National Book Award), Jorge Luis Borges, Robertson Davies, William Kennedy ( his novel Ironweed " spurge " won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize ), David Lodge, William Trevor, and Garrison Keillor. In 1989, Viking by the publication of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie hit the headlines and unleashed a storm of controversy when Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a fatwa on the author.
Among the prestigious book prize winners at Viking Penguin, the authors Roddy Doyle are among his novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and JM Coetzee, who managed to be the first author the price of two of his books ( Life and Times of Michael K in 1983 and Disgrace in 1999 ) to win. In 2003 Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Of all the authors whose books the publisher has been published so far are five, which the Nobel prize was awarded. Currently, published by Viking about 100 publications per year.
Viking Children's Books
1933 Viking Press founded a new department, the Viking Children's Books (Viking Children's Books ), for publishing such authors as Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, John Steinbeck and Rebecca West. The first editor was May Massee, which made the Junior Books to become a leader in the field of children's books. The first books list included The Story About Ping, classics like Make Way for Ducklings, The Story of Ferdinand, The Twenty-one Balloons, Pippi Longstocking ( Pippi Longstocking ) and others.
1985 Viking won the first children's book publisher to Carey Thomas Award and was twice nominated for the LMP Award.
Publishing Director
Since joining in December 1997 Clare Ferraro is responsible within the Penguin Group as president for publishing groups Viking Press, Plume, Hudson Street Press and Pamela Dorman Books. Previously, she served for 19 years a number of other positions in advertising and in the management area by Ballantine Books, including as editor in chief, publisher and director of public relations. Regina Hayes, who came to Viking Press in 1982, heads the department of children's books.