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Founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy, Riverhead Books is now well-established as a publisher of bestselling literary fiction and quality non-fiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead Books has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers. Riverhead's books have won Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Critic Circle Awards, and numerous other distinctions.
The list of Riverhead Books authors includes:
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Abraham, Pearl Aczel, Amir Anouilh, Jean Artress, Lauren Assayas, Michka Attenberg, Jami Auslander, Shalom Avery, Ellis Aw, Tash Barkley, Charles Barrows, Anita Batchelor, Stephen Beall, Will Belle, Jennifer Berg, A. Scott Black, Lewis Bloom, Harold Borysenko, Joan Brashares, Anne Brehony, Kathleen A. Burstyn, Ellen Byer, Heather Byock, Ira Campbell Webster, Emma Chambers, Veronica Chaviano, Daina Cho, Margaret Cobain, Kurt Colin, Beatrice Conlon, Edward Cooper, David Crawford, John R. Crosley, Sloane Cunningham, Laura Shaine D'Adamo, Dr. Peter J. D'Antonio, Michael Dalai Lama Dass, Ram Davidson, Jonathan, M.D. Davies, Adam Davis, Sampson de Waal, Frans Dery, Dominika Díaz, Junot Dorst, Doug Durrant, Sabine Eisenstein, Bernice Estrich, Susan Evaristo, Berndardine Ferrari-Adler, Jenni Fleming, Ann Marie Flowers, Rebecca Ford, Debbie Frey, James Galloway, Steven Garland, Alex Gavalda, Anna Gehlek, Rimpoche Nawang Glass, Ira Goldblatt, David |
Golding, William Goldstein, Jonathan Gordon, Emily Fox Gorillaz Govrin, Michal Griffith, Nicola Grimaud, Helene Grozni, Nikolai Handler, Evan Hanh, Thich Nhat Hartley, Aidan Hearn, Lian Hemon, Aleksandar Henriquez, Cristina Hodgman, John Hollander, John Hopcke, Robert H. Hornby, Nick Hosseini, Khaled Iverson, Portia James, Marlon Johnson, Steven Kamenetz, Anya Keller, Timothy Kerouac, Jack Kirkpatrick, Sidney D. Klam, Julia Kolb, Larry J. Kruger, Pamela Lama, Dalai Lamott, Anne Lee, Chang-rae Lee, Cyndi Lerner, Betsy Lida, David Malarkey, Tucker Marche, Stephen Marcom, Micheline Martin, James McBride, James McClure, Wendy McLean, Stuart Mengestu, Dinaw Moody, Martha Mosley, Walter Mukhopadhyay, Tito Murray, Michael Mun, Nami Nasheed, Tariq Neill, Fiona Newton, Jim Nicholson, Geoff Ninh, Bao Norris, Kathleen O'Conner, Patricia T. O'Faolain, Nuala Orman, Suze Packer, ZZ Pears, Iain Perlman, Elliot |
Perlmutter, David Perry, Tyler Pink, Daniel Pipher Mary Primack, Joel R. Reece, Erik Remen, Rachel Naomi Rich, Frank Kelly Rich, Nathaniel Rimpoche, Sakyong Miphan Rushkoff, Douglas Salzberg, Sharon Sandlin, Tim Saunders, George Scarf, Maggie Schacter, Rabbi Zalman Scholinski, Daphne Segal, Jerome M. Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia Senna, Danzy Serros, Michele M. Sherman-Wolin, Judith Sherrill, Martha Shteyngart, Gary Smith, Patrick Spangler, David Spragg, Mark Sprangler, David Steiker, Valerie Stepp, Laura Sessions Stout, Mira Swann, Maxine Swire-Falker, Elizabeth Teresa of Avila, Saint The RZA Thurman, Robert A. F. Tinniswood, Adrian Tobar, Hector Todd, Richard Traig, Jennifer Trott, Susan Turoque, Bjorn Uruburu, Paula Vachon, Dana Vowell, Sarah Walker, Rebecca Warner, Judith Waters, Sarah Weiner, Ellis Weitz, Patricia Whyte, David Williamson, Marianne Winger, Anna Wolitzer, Meg Wood, Simon Woodall, Trinny Wurtzel, Elizabeth Yost, Cali Williams Zeppa, Jamie |
Riverhead Books is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., which is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Berkley Books, Dutton, Frederick Warne, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Grosset & Dunlap, New American Library, Penguin Books, The Penguin Press, Philomel, Plume, Puffin, Riverhead Books and Viking, among others. The Penguin Group (http://www.penguin.com) is part of Pearson plc, the international media company.
Awards
Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
- A New York Times Notable Book, 2007
- Named a Hot Young Writer by Entertainment Weekly
- Named to The Forward's 50, 2007
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
- Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction, 2007
- Winner of the American Library Association's Stonewall Fiction Award
- Winner of the Barbara Gittings Book Award in Literature
- Winner of an Ohioana Library Award
- Named a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, 2008
- National Book Critics Circle winner for Best Fiction, 2007
- Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2007
- Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book award for fiction
- Amazon's #2 book of the year
- A New York Times Notable Book, 2007
- A PW Best Book of the Year, 2007
- A Hudson Booksellers Best Book of the Year, 2007
- Named a Hot Young Writer by Entertainment Weekly
- Winner of the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize from the Mercantile Library
- One of Booklist's Top First Novels, 2007
Drown by Junot Díaz
- New York Times Notable Book, 1996
- One of the Village Voice Top 25 Best Books of the Year
- ALA Best Books, 1996
- Shortlisted for PEN/Hemingway Award
- Nominated for QPB's New Voices Award
- Included in The Art of the Story (Viking)
- Included in Great American Short Stories, 1997, 1998, 1999
- Named one of The New Yorker's Best 20 Writers Under 40, 1999
- Winner, Guggenheim Fellowship
- Finalist, National Magazine Award for Fiction
- Awarded the Lila Wallace Grant
Knots by Nuruddin Farah
- A New York Times Notable Book, 2007
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
- On Amazon's top books of the year list
- Book Sense Picks Highlights, 2007
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
- Excerpted in The New Yorker's 1998 Christmas Fiction Issue
- A New York Times Notable Book, 1998
- One of New York Public Library's Books to Remember, 1998
- An ALA Notable Book, 1999
- Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
- One of the Times of London's Top Ten Football Books of All Time
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- New York Times Notable Book, 1995
- One of Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Books, 1995
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Amazon's #1 book of the year, 2007
- A Hudson Booksellers Best Book of the Year, 2007
- Nominated for ALA's Best Book for Young Readers Award, 2008
- Book Sense Picks Highlights, 2007
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
- shortlisted for the 2007 Best Book Award from The National Academies of Science
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
- Winner of the Asian-American Literary Award
- Winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
- Winner of the North Atlantic Independent Bookseller's Association (NAIBA) Book Award for Fiction
- Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Finalist for a New Yorker Book Award
- A New York Times Notable Book, 1999
- One of Esquire Magazine's Distinguished Books of the Year
- Finalist for a New Yorker Book Award
- Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Book Award
- One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books, 1999
- One of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books, 1999
- One of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books, 1999
- An ALA Adult Notable Book
- A pick of the San Francisco Chronicle's Book Club
- One of Bookreporter.com's Top Ten Hardcovers
- One of the Christian Science Monitor's Top Forty Books of the Year
- One of The New Yorker's Best 20 Writers Under 40
- Winner, Guggenheim Fellowship
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
- Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction
- Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
- Winner of QPB's New Voices Award for best new fiction
- Winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation
- Winner of the Oregon Book Award
- Finalist for a PEN West Award in fiction
- ALA Notable Book for adults
- Finalist for Granta's award for Best Novelist Under 40
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
- A New York Times Notable Book, 2007
- Winner of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award
- Winner of a Lannan 2008 Literary Fellowship
- Winner of France's Prix du Premier Roman Etranger
- Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize in the United Kingdom
- Named Seattle Reads pick of 2008 by the Seattle Public Library
- On Amazon's top books of the year list
The Color of Water by James McBride
- Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- ALA Notable Book, 1996
- One of New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember, 1996
City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate
- shortlisted for Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, 2007
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris
- Recommended summer reading by The New York Times Book Review
- A New York Times Notable Book, 1998
- Association of Theological Booksellers Best Book, 1998
- Association of Theological Booksellers Best General Interest Book, 1998
- Books for a Better Life Award Finalist (Spiritual Book category)
- One of Christianity Today's 25 Best Books of the Year
- One of Amazon.com's 10 Best Books of the Year (Religion and Spirituality category)
- A runner-up for the Society of Mid-land Authors Award
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Winner of Christianity Today's Book Award
- Finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award
- A New York Times Notable Book, 1996
The Courage to Be Rich by Suze Orman
- Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award (Motivational Book category)
The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
- On Amazon's top books of the year list
Civil War Land in Bad Decline by George Saunders
- A New York Times Notable Book
- Finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction
- One of Esquire's 20 Essential Books for the 1990's
Pastoralia by George Saunders
- Winner of the National Magazine Award for Fiction for "The Barber's Unhappiness"
- A New York Times Notable Book, 2000
- One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Fiction Books, 2000
- Named one of the best books of the year by: St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kansas City Star, and Barnes & Noble
- Winner of three National Magazine Awards for Fiction
- One of The New Yorker's Best 20 Fiction Writers Under 40
- Three-time finalist for the O. Henry Award
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
- Winner of the 1998 BOMC Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction
- One of Glamour's three Best Novels of the Year by a New Writer
- One of the School Library Journal's 23 Best Adult Books for the Young Adult
- One of the Los Angeles Times's Best Books, 1998
- Winner of an Alex Award from the American Library Association for one of the top ten adult books for the teenager
- Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Affinity by Sarah Waters
- Finalist for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Times of London Novelist of the Year, 2000
- Winner of the American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Book Award, 2001
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
- A New York Times Notable Book
- One of Amazon.com's Editors' Picks of the Year
- A finalist for the Betty Trask Prize
- One of Library Journal's Best Books, 1999
- Winner of a Lambda Literary Award
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Winner of a Lamda Literary Award
- Finalist for The Booker Prize
- Finalist for the Orange Prize
Susan Petersen Kennedy
President of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Mrs. Susan Petersen Kennedy has been President of the Penguin Group (USA) since 2001. Prior to accepting her current role as President, Mrs. Kennedy was Chairman and Publisher of Viking Penguin and Publisher of Riverhead following the Penguin Putnam merger in 1997.
Kennedy originally joined the Putnam Berkley Group in 1994 to strengthen its non-fiction presence and to establish a new hardcover and trade paperback publishing house, Riverhead Books.
From 1982 to 1992, Mrs. Kennedy was Executive Vice President of Random House, Inc. and President of the Ballantine Publishing Group. Under her management, the division increased its gross revenue fivefold and quadrupled its profitability. Mrs. Kennedy handled Ballantine's acquisition of Fawcett Books and House of Collectibles.
Mrs. Kennedy has been a past member of the Visiting Committee for Harvard University Press and a member of the Freedom to Publish Committee (an organization within the International Publisher's Association set up to investigate censorship throughout the world). She has served as a board member of the Association of American Publishers and as a former chair of its paperback publishing division. She has also served as a member of the advisory board of the Women's Rights division of Human Rights Watch.
Susan Petersen Kennedy is a true servant to the written word... words, ideas and stories. She loves her work: the problems, the people, the books. She has dedicated her life to writers, readers and the people who bring them together.
A native of Nebraska, Mrs. Kennedy is a cum laude graduate of Vassar College. She also holds an M.F.A. from New York University.
Geoffrey Kloske
Vice President
Geoffrey Kloske is Vice President and Publisher of Riverhead Books. Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the Penguin Group.
In his editing and publishing career he has worked with many award-winning, New York Times bestselling authors and books including Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation and Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1, the latter a finalist for a 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award, and David Sedaris's Naked. In addition, he also worked with such authors as Shalom Auslander, Thomas Berger, James Carville, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Bernard Cooper, Ira Glass, Ed McBain, James McBride, Nick Hornby many of them New York Times bestsellers.
Prior to coming to Riverhead Books, Mr. Kloske was Vice President, Executive Editor of the Adult Trade Group at Simon & Schuster. He has also worked at Little, Brown & Co and St. Martin's Press.
Mr. Kloske has authored one children's book, Once Upon A Time, The End, with illustrator Barry Blitt, which was published by Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books in October 2005. The title received a National Parenting Publications Award and was acknowledged with an award from Publishers Weekly.
Sean McDonald
Vice President and Executive Editor
Sean McDonald is Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. Penguin Group (USA) is the U.S. affiliate of the Penguin Group.
Sean McDonald has worked in the book publishing world for more than ten years. At Riverhead he has edited bestselling and award-winning authors including Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project, John Hodgman's The Areas of My Expertise, Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You and The Ghost Map, Tyler Perry's Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings, and Eric Reece's Lost Mountain. In addition to his editorial duties at Riverhead Books, he is also the imprint's Online Creative Director, and will continue to spearhead its website and online efforts.
Prior to joining Riverhead Books in 2003, Mr. McDonald was at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday for four years as Editor and Online Marketing Director, where he acquired and edited James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Question of Bruno, Ellen Ullman's The Bug (finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), among other books.
From 1994 to 1998, he worked at Arcade Publishing, as Editor and Art Director, where he acquired and edited Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy, Maps, Gifts, and Secrets.
Sarah McGrath
Vice President and Executive Editor
Sarah McGrath is Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. Prior to coming to Riverhead in 2006 she was Senior Editor at Scribner, where she worked for eight years and acquired and edited a combination of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction.
At Riverhead, Ms. McGrath has edited Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns (an instant #1 New York Times bestseller), The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares and The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer (both New York Times bestsellers), and books by Chang-rae Lee, Maxine Swann, Rebecca Walker, and Martha Moody.
At Scribner she discovered such fiction writers as Maile Meloy (Half in Love won the Pen/Malamud Award; Liars and Saints was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize), and Aryn Kyle (The God of Animals was a New York Times bestseller). She also acquired the first novels of graphic designer Chip Kidd and New Yorker humorist Patricia Marx, as well as books by such bestselling and award-winning fiction writers as Anita Diamant and Antonya Nelson. She also edited Kate Walbert's novel Our Kind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Narrative nonfiction authors that Ms. McGrath acquired and edited while at Scribner included bestselling writers Diane Ackerman, Alison Smith, and George Howe Colt, whose book, The Big House, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Before her tenure at Scribner, Ms. McGrath spent two years at Knopf, where she worked for Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Sonny Mehta. She graduated from Harvard University and worked as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek before entering book publishing.
Jake Morrissey
Executive Editor
Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor of Riverhead Books, acquires and edits books in the areas of narrative non-fiction, science, history, culture, religion/spirituality, humor, historical fiction and thrillers. He has edited the work of a wide range of authors, including the New York Times bestselling authors Anne Lamott (whose Grace (Eventually) was a New York Times, BookSense, and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller), Lewis Black (whose Me of Little Faith was a New York Times, BookSense, and Washington Post bestseller), Daniel Pink (author of the New York Times best-selling A Whole New Mind and the BusinessWeek bestseller The Adventures of Johnny Bunko), Judith Warner (whose Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety was a New York Times bestseller and was excerpted in Newsweek), Frans de Waal (whose Our Inner Ape was a New York Times Notable Book), William F. Buckley, Jr., Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson, and Mary Pipher. Before joining Riverhead, he was an editor at Scribner, where he edited work by authors as diverse as novelist Robert Hellenga and Sarah Ban Breathnach, and at Harmony, where edited history, humor and religion/spirituality. He is the author of a historical mystery, A Weekend at Blenheim, and the non-fiction history The Genius in the Design.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in both English and American Studies, and he has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
Megan Lynch
Senior Editor
Megan Lynch is Senior Editor at Riverhead, where she has worked since 2003. She has acquired and edited a range of literary fiction and non-fiction, including Dinaw Mengestu's acclaimed debut The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (a Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe bestseller, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award, and the Seattle Reads pick for 2008), Ellis Avery's work of historical fiction The Teahouse Fire (a BookSense pick; winner of a Lambda Literary Award, a Stonewall Award and an Ohioana Book Award), New Yorker short story writer Cristina Henriquez's collection Come Together, Fall Apart (a finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award for fiction). She also works with Riverhead authors including Sarah Waters, Jennifer Belle, Julie Klam, Jennifer Traig, and Adam Davies. Prior to her arrival at Riverhead, Megan worked at Little, Brown and Company and Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. A graduate of Brown University, she is originally from Philadelphia.
