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Viking Press

American publishing company

Field	Value
image	Viking Press logo.png
parent	Penguin Random House
status	Active
founded
founders	Harold K. Guinzburg
George Oppenheimer
country	United States
headquarters	New York City
keypeople	Brian Tart (president)
Kenneth Wright (Children's publisher)
imprints	{{Plain list
website

George Oppenheimer Kenneth Wright (Children's publisher)

Viking Kestrel
Viking Adult
Viking Children's Books
Viking Portable Library

Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975.

The publisher's name and logo, a Viking ship drawn by Rockwell Kent, were chosen as symbols of enterprise, adventure, and exploration in publishing.

Viking Press was sold to Penguin Books in 1975 for $12 million due to the publishing house's monetary difficulties. These were speculated to have been caused by the shrinkage in the juvenile market and Viking Press' lack of a textbook division.

Imprints

Viking Kestrel
Viking Adult, who got in legal trouble in 1946 due to John Steinbeck's bold eulogy, and fell out of public favor in 1947
Viking Children's Books
Viking Portable Library
Pamela Dorman Books

Viking Children's

In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published was The Story About Ping in 1933 under editor May Massee. Junior Books was later renamed Viking Children's Books. Viking Kestrel was one of its imprints.

Its books have won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and include such books as The Twenty-One Balloons, written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois (1947, Newbery medal winner for 1948), Corduroy, Make Way for Ducklings, The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (1993), The Outsiders, Pippi Longstocking, and The Story of Ferdinand. Its paperbacks are now published by Puffin Books, which includes the Speak and Firebird imprints. In 2023, Tamar Brazis was named v-p and publisher of Viking Children's Books.

Viking Critical Library

The Viking Critical Library offers academic editions of literary texts. Like W. W. Norton's Norton Critical Editions, all titles print the text alongside a selection of critical essays and contextual documents (including relevant extracts from the author's oeuvre). The series, which only saw sporadic publications in the late 1970s and late 1990s, has been dormant since 1998, with no new titles released since then. However, a number of existing titles remain in print.

;Titles

Author	Title	Editor	Year published	Notes
Don DeLillo	White Noise	Mark Osteen	1998	.
Graham Greene	The Quiet American	John Clark Pratt	1996
James Joyce	Dubliners	Robert Scholes	1996
James Joyce	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Chester G. Anderson	1977	The only title known to include explanatory end notes.
Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	John Clark Pratt	1977	Out of print.
Jack Kerouac	On the Road	Scott Donaldson	1979	Out of print.
Arthur Miller	The Crucible	Gerald Weales	1996
Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman	Gerald Weales	1996
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	Kevin Hearle	1997

Notable authors

Abdullah II, King of Jordan
Kingsley Amis
Sherwood Anderson
Hannah Arendt
Peter S. Beagle
Antony Beevor
Saul Bellow
Ludwig Bemelmans
Dan Blum
T. C. Boyle
Geraldine Brooks
Daniel James Brown
William S. Burroughs
Lan Cao
Rosanne Cash
Ferreira de Castro
J. M. Coetzee
Leonard Cohen
Roald Dahl
Theodore Draper
Lawrence Durrell
Kim Edwards
Daniel Ellsberg
Helen Fielding
Frederick Forsyth
Don Freeman
Tana French
Elizabeth George
Elizabeth Gilbert
Rumer Godden
Will Gompertz
Graham Greene
R. K. Narayan
Robert Greene
Martha Grimes
S. E. Hinton
David Irving
Kristopher Jansma
James Weldon Johnson
James Joyce
Jan Karon
Ezra Jack Keats
Garrison Keillor
William Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Sue Monk Kidd
Stephen King
Jamil Jan Kochai
D. H. Lawrence
Tobsha Learner
Rebecca Makkai
Hilary Mantel
Peter Matthiessen
Robert McCloskey
Terry McMillan
Arthur Miller
Jojo Moyes
John Julius Norwich
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Richard Osman
Octavio Paz
Steven Pinker
Thomas Pynchon
Ruth Sawyer
Jon Scieszka
Kate Seredy
Katherine Binney Shippen
Upton Sinclair
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Rex Stout
August Strindberg
Simms Taback
Whitney Terrell
Barbara Tuchman
Carl Van Doren
William T. Vollmann
David Foster Wallace
Rosemary Wells
Rebecca West
Patrick White
Vikram Sampath

Notable editors

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, consulting editor
Wendy Wolf, vice president and associate editor, as of 1994

Awards

10 Newbery Medals
10 Caldecott Medals
27 Newbery Honors
33 Caldecott Honors
1 American Book Award
2 Coretta Scott King Awards
3 Batcheldor Honors
5 Christopher Medals
2 Margaret A. Edwards Awards for authors S. E. Hinton and Richard Peck

References

(1995). "The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition". Yale University Press.
(1975). "Viking Press Is Sold To Penguin Books". [[Media Source Inc.]].
Whitman, Alden. (November 11, 1975). "Viking Press Is Sold to Penguin Books". [[The New York Times]].
"Brazis, Santopolo promoted at Penguin Young Readers".

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