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Algonquin Books
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Workman Publishing Company.
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Algonquin Books was founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1983 with a goal of publishing quality fiction and nonfiction by unpublished young writers. Although it started as a small Southern house, over the years it has garnered national attention for a diverse range of renowned authors, including Julia Alvarez, Kaye Gibbons, Chimamanda Adichie, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Tayari Jones, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Daniel Wallace, and Amy Stewart, among others. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing. Today, it has offices in New York City and Chapel Hill and its numerous bestsellers and prizewinners include Water for Elephants, A Reliable Wife, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Big Fish, Last Child in the Woods, The Leavers, In the Time of the Butterflies, An American Marriage, Dan Rather's What Unites Us, and The Book of Delights. Algonquin also publishes the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a biannual prize established by author Barbara Kingsolver whose winners include Hillary Jordan's Mudbound, Heidi Durrow's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Lisa Ko’s The Leavers, Katharine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight, and Jamila Minnicks Gleason's Moonrise Over New Jessup.