Riverhead Books
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Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group (USA).
Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, Songbook, and A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby; The Beach by Alex Garland; Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters; Drown by Junot Diaz; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, and In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders; The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; Overworld and America at Night by Larry J. Kolb; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom; The Wu-Tang Manual by the RZA; Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Berlin Johnson; My Friend Leonard by James Frey; The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman; and Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry.
Riverhead was founded in 1994 by Susan Peterson Kennedy (now President and Publisher of Penguin Group (USA)). Riverhead had an early focus on Buddhism and spirituality and literary fiction by young ethnic writers. In 2003, Julie Grau and Celina Spiegel, two of Riverhead's original editors, became co-publishers of Riverhead; they left the company in 2005 to form Spiegel & Grau, a division of Doubleday.
The current publisher of Riverhead is Geoffrey Kloske.
