Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group (USA).

Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include "Journals" by Kurt Cobain; "The Art of Happiness" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; "The Color of Water" by James McBride; "Native Speaker", "A Gesture Life", and "Aloft" by Chang-rae Lee; "Fever Pitch", "High Fidelity", "About a Boy", "How To Be Good," "Songbook", and "A Long Way Down" by Nick Hornby; "The Beach" by Alex Garland; "Tipping the Velvet", "Fingersmith", and "The Night Watch" by Sarah Waters; "Drown" by Junot Diaz; "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline", "Pastoralia", "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil", and "In Persuasion Nation" by George Saunders; "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini; "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" by Harold Bloom; "The Wu-Tang Manual" by the RZA; "Everything Bad is Good for You" and "The Ghost Map" by Steven Berlin Johnson; "My Friend Leonard" by James Frey; "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel H. Pink; "Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings" by Tyler Perry; "The Last Summer (of You and Me)" by Ann Brashares; "Me of Little Faith" by Lewis Black; and "Rise of the Ogre" by The ficional band Gorillaz..

Riverhead was founded in 1994 by Susan Peterson Kennedy (now President and Publisher of Penguin Group (USA)). Riverhead had an early focus on Buddhism and spirituality and literary fiction by young ethnic writers. In 2003, Julie Grau and Celina Spiegel, two of Riverhead's original editors, became co-publishers of Riverhead; they left the company in 2005 to form Spiegel & Grau, a division of Doubleday.

The current publisher of Riverhead is Geoffrey Kloske.

External links

* [http://www.riverheadbooks.com Riverhead Books website]


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