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Villard (imprint)

Publishing imprint of Random House


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Publishing imprint of Random House

FieldValue
nameVillard
imageVillard Books logo.png
parentBallantine Books
Random House
founded1983
countryUnited States
headquartersNew York City, New York
publicationsBooks
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Random House Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world, owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. Villard was founded in 1983.

Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House and is currently a sub-imprint of Ballantine Books, itself an imprint of Random House. It was named after a Stanford White brownstone mansion on Madison Avenue that was the home of Random House for twenty years.

Books

1985

  • The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James

1987

  • Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay
  • Pattern Crimes, William Bayer 1988
  • All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum

1989

  • Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World, Noah Benshea

1990

  • Latin for All Occasions, Henry Beard

1991

  • Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: Rise and Fall of the Ceauşescus, Edward Behr 1992
  • Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Shot John Lennon, Jack Joneshttp://www.classicbands.com/JackJonesInterview.html Interview with investigative reporter Jack Jones about Let Me Take You Down - Inside The Mind of Mark David Chapman
  • The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf

1993

  • Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission, Gloria Brame
  • Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi, Morris Dees & Steve Fiffer
  • The Fifties, David Halberstam
  • Primal Fear, William Diehl

1994

  • Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, Edwin Diamond.
  • Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, John Boswell
  • Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received, Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry,
  • Mary Cassatt: A Life, Nancy Mowll Mathews
  • The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia

1995

  • Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain
  • The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories, Paul Kingsbury
  • Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
  • American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Nancy Rubin Stuart

1996

  • Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
  • The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell 1997
  • Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain.
  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer

1998

  • Children of God, Mary Doria Russell 2000
  • The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, written by George Saunders, illustrated by Lane Smith
  • Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories, Dan Rhodes 2001
  • Necessary Targets, Eve Ensler 2003
  • Vagabonding: An uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel, Rolf Potts
  • A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, Jane Juska 2004
  • Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Ken Goffman. 2005
  • What We Do Is Secret, Thorn Kief Hillsbery
  • Zanesville, Kris Saknussemm 2006
  • The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bobby Henderson 2007
  • Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab, written by Melissa Plaut
  • Macedonia, written by Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson, with illustrations by Ed Piskor
  • Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, Brian Coleman

2008

  • Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe
  • The Big Skinny, Carol Lay
  • How Can I Keep From Singing (revised edition), biography of Pete Seeger, by David Dunaway
  • The presidential book of lists: from most to least, elected to rejected, worst to cursed: Fascinating facts about our chief executives, Ian Randal Strock

2009

  • Farewell, My Subaru, Doug Fine

2010

  • I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, Eve Ensler

References

References

  1. PRH Staff. (7 March 2024). "Penguin Random House [PRH] Imprints". PenguinRandomHouse.com.
  2. Germano, Sara. (18 December 2019). "Bertelsmann Takes Full Ownership of Penguin Random House". [[The Wall Street Journal]] (WSJ.com).
  3. Random House Staff. (2009-03-06). "The Random House Publishing Group: About Us". RandomHouse.com.
  4. [http://www.goats.com/forums/news/5424/ ] {{webarchive. link. (March 7, 2010)
  5. "Noah benShea's The Journey to Greatness". Thejourneytogreatness.com.
  6. (October 17, 1991). "AUTHOR, AUTHOR, AUTHOR : Bagels : Noah benShea writes about the person he aspires to be. In 'Jacob's Journey,' that man sets out to reconcile his route to reality.". Los Angeles Times.
  7. $80,000 for Pastafarian Bible AngsumanNovember 14th, 2005. (2005-11-14). "$80,000 for Pastafarian Bible". Angsuman.taragana.net.
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