Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing
imprint of
Penguin Random House originally established by
Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by
Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with
Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's
Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage. Following Random House's merger with
Penguin, Vintage was transferred to
Penguin UK
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.[Bodley Head
The Bodley Head is an English publishing house, founded in 1887 and existing as an independent entity until the 1970s. The name was used as an imprint of Random House Children's Books from 1987 to 2008. In April 2008, it was revived as an adul ...]
,
Jonathan Cape,
Chatto and Windus,
Harvill Secker,
Hogarth Press, Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey. Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003.
Notable authors
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Bor ...
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Cormac McCarthy
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Albert Camus
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Ralph Ellison
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Dashiell Hammett
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William Styron
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Philip Roth
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Toni Morrison
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Dave Eggers
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Robert Caro
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote '' The Power ...
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Haruki Murakami
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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James Ellroy
First editions
Vintage Books have "First Edition" printed on the copyright page with a '1' that is present.
References
External links
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Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
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Random House
Publishing companies established in 1954
1960 mergers and acquisitions
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