Harper Perennial
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| Parent company | HarperCollins |
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| Founded | 1964 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | harperperennial |
Harper Perennialis a paperback imprint of the publishing houseHarperCollins Publishers.[1]
Overview
[edit]Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London,Toronto,and Sydney. The imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded byHarper & Rowin 1964. In fall of 2005, Harper Perennial rebranded with a new logo (an Olive) and a distinct editorial direction emphasizing fiction and non-fiction from new and young authors. In the end matter, books often feature a brand-specific P.S. section that features extra material such as interviews.
Recent notable books includeI Am Not Myself These DaysbyJosh Kilmer-Purcell,The Yacoubian BuildingbyAlaa Al Aswany,This Will Be My UndoingbyMorgan Jerkins,The Paradox of Choiceby Barry Schwartz,Lullabies for Little Criminalsby Heather O'Neil,Grab On to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Wayby Bryan Charles, andThe Yiddish Policemen's Unionby Michael Chabon. In November 2011, they releasedThe Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travelsby Richard Paul Roe, a detailed examination of the locales mentioned in ten plays by Shakespeare.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics,a direct offshoot of the imprint, publishes authors such asPeter Singer,Harper Lee,Zora Neale Hurston,Aldous Huxley,Russell Banks,Thomas Pynchon,Milan Kundera,Gabriel García Márquez,Sylvia Plath,andThornton Wilder.
Further reading
[edit]- Peter Coveney,Harper's Perennial Library, 1964-1990,publishinghistory.com
- Peter Coveney,"Harper’s Perennial Library Mystery Series, 1976-1990",atFirsts: The Book Collector's Magazine,July/August 2021.
References
[edit]- ^Wyatt, Edward (March 22, 2006)."Literary Novels Going Straight to Paperback".The New York Times.