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About us. The one you can’t put down. The one you’ll never forget. Some time ago – in 1934, to be precise – our founder was waiting for a train and couldn’t find anything good to read. What was needed, he realised, were quality books at a reasonable price. And so he decided to change things – the following year Penguin was launched ...
6 days ago · May 20, 2024. In a significant shake up, Penguin Random House, the largest publishing house in the United States, announced on Monday that the publishers of two of its most prestigious literary ...
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. Outlive by Peter Attia, MD. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
On May 14, 2024, Penguin Random House Canada shared the sad news that beloved Nobelist author Alice Munro has died at the age of 92 in her home in Port Hope, Ontario. In Canada, McClelland & Stewart has long been the proud publisher of Munro’s fiction and Penguin Canada is the longtime publisher of Alice Munro in paperback.
The merger of Random House and Penguin is finalized, establishing Penguin Random House, following the closing between shareholders of Bertelsmann and Pearson, who own, respectively, 53% and 47% of the new global trade publishers, which unites all of the publishing imprints of the two companies worldwide.
Penguin Random House's mission is to connect readers worldwide to adult and children's fiction and nonfiction authors both familiar and new. It is home to more than 50 Nobel Prize laureates, over 100 Pulitzer Prize winners, and many of the most widely read authors of our time.
Penguin Random House. Company History. 1838. 1864. 1897. 1898. The. 1921. 1925. 1926. Winnie-the-Pooh. 1927. 1928. The. 193Os. 1933. 1934. Ulysses. 1935. 1936. 1937. 1938. 1939. The Grapes of Wrath, 194O. 1941. 1942. Leaves of Grass. 1944. 1945. 1946. 1947. 1948. 1949. The. 195O. 1952. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. 1953.
