Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing
imprint of
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House.
On April 2, 2020, Bertelsmann announced the completion of its purchase o ...
originally established by
Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by
Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Ger ...
in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with
Bantam Doubleday Dell
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, 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.
In addition to publishing classic and contemporary works in paperback under the Vintage brand, the imprint also oversees the sub-imprints
Bodley Head,
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
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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
Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Alb ...
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Ralph Ellison
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Dashiell Hammett
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William Styron
William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
Styron was best known for his novels, including:
* '' Lie Down in Darkness'' (1951), his acclaimed f ...
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...
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Toni Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, '' The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' S ...
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Dave Eggers
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Robert Caro
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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
Doubleday, Vintage Team with Production Company on New ImprintVintage BooksVintage Books UKPublishing history
timeline
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Companies based in New York City
Random House
Publishing companies established in 1954
1960 mergers and acquisitions
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