The Penguin Press
The Penguin Press was founded in 2003 by Ann Godoff and launched its debut list in the Winter of 2004. Dedicated to publishing literary nonfiction and select fiction, its distinguished roster of authors include, among others, John Berendt, Ron Chernow, Steve Coll, Ruth Reichl, James M. McPherson, Alan Greenspan, Michael Pollan, Thomas Pynchon, Thomas E. Ricks, Frank Rich, Mark Helprin, David Nasaw, Zadie Smith, Gordon Wood, Maira Kalman, Jerome Groopman, James B. Stewart, Samantha Power, Daniel Yergin, Bryan Burrough, Naill Ferguson, Michael Kimmelman, Roger Lowenstein, Claire Tomalin, and Eric Schlosser. In its first five years, The Penguin Press has published numerous New York Times and national bestsellers, earning an array of prestigious prizes and citations that include the Pulitzer Prize, the James Beard Award, the Orange Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Man Asian Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ann Godoff
President and Publisher of The Penguin Press
Ann Godoff joined Penguin Group in 2003 to start her own imprint. Ms. Godoff has had a distinguished career in book publishing since joining the editorial department of Simon & Schuster in 1980. In 1987 she joined Atlantic Monthly Press as Senior Editor, becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1989. She was appointed executive editor at Random House in 1991, becoming a Vice President in 1994 and Editorial Director in 1995. In 1997 she became president, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Random House Trade Publishing Group and executive vice president of Random House, Inc. Among the celebrated authors Ms. Godoff has acquired and edited are John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a record-breaker on The New York Times bestseller list, 1997 Booker Award winner Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) and Zadie Smith (White Teeth), Ron Chernow, Alexandra Fuller (author of best-selling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight), Caleb Carr, William Finnegan, James Hillman, Frank Rich, Salman Rushdie, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Pollan, Carl Sagan, Nathan McCall, Francine du Plessix Gray, Thomas Pynchon, Steve Coll, Frank Rich, David Nasaw, Michael Kimmleman, Ruth Reichl, and Alan Furst.
