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Michael Joseph (26 September 1897 – 15 March 1958) was a British publisher and writer. Early life and career. Joseph was born in Upper Clapton, London. During the First World War he served as a captain in the Machine Gun Corps and was in the line near Arras.
In 1985, exactly half a century after their mutual founding, Michael Joseph became the commercial imprint of Penguin Books. Our founder’s legacy – the nurturing of writers and making of bestsellers – remains proudly in our blood to this day.
The winner of the Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers' Prize will receive a publishing contract with Penguin Michael Joseph, worth at least £10,000, and representation by the Janklow & Nesbit agency.
Joseph managed to build up an impressive list of authors, such as H. E. Bates, C. S. Forester, Monica Dickens, and Richard Llewellyn. He also published a book by Bertrand Russell and D. F. Karaka’s autobiographical book about his time in England, I Go West (1938).
Penguin Michael Joseph. 30,680 likes · 200 talking about this. Est. 1935 🐧 A division of @penguinukbooks 📚 Home to some of the world’s most popular authors
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Michael Joseph is an imprint for Penguin, publishing "popular fiction and non- fiction." With authors like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler, it's hard to argue the point. From the SF/ F stand-point, Michael Joseph can be credited with giving us Marge Piercy's "Body of Glass." Works in the WWEnd Database
Michael Joseph founded his publishing house as a subsidiary of Victor Gollancz in 1935, a time when many other publishing houses were folding or suffering serious financial difficulties. Joseph and Gollancz soon began to clash on various topics — from publishing material to financial targets.
