| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1968 |
| Founder | Peter Workman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Fiction genres | books, audiobooks, calendars |
| Imprints | Algonquin, Black Dog & Leventhal, Storey, Timber, Artisan, HighBridge Audio |
| Official website | www.workman.com |
Workman Publishing Company is a publisher of primarily non-fiction print and audio books along with calendars with annual sales of over US$25 million. Located in New York City, New York, USA, the publisher works under several imprints with offices located throughout the United States. Peter Workman founded the company in 1968 when he published the book Yoga 28-Day Exercise Plan. As of July 2007, two-thirds of the books published by the company remained in print.[1]
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Workman is best known for its Page-A-Day Calendar series covering a variety of topics and the 1,000 Places to See Before You Die book, calendar, and television program. [2] It publishes the pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, which has over 13 million copies in print, many of Sandra Boynton’s children's books, and Brain Quest. [3] Workman has also published many widely regarded cookbooks, including Steven Raichlen’s The Barbecue Bible series and Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso’s The Silver Palate Cookbook. In 2008, Workman released Magic: The Complete Course by magician Joshua Jay.
Workman’s flagship imprint is known for a very information-dense layout inspired by magazine publishers, with large amounts of illustration and a heavy reliance on sidebars to convey information not directly stated in the text itself.
Algonquin Books was founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1983 with a goal to publish quality fiction and nonfiction by unpublished young writers. Although it started as a small Southern house, it garnered national attention for many now-renowned authors, including Julia Alvarez, Kaye Gibbons, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith, Tayari Jones, and Amy Stewart among many others. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing, one of the largest independent publishing companies in the United States. Today, it has offices in New York City and Chapel Hill and is recognized internationally as a literary house with numerous bestsellers, boasting titles such as Water for Elephants, A Reliable Wife, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Last Child in the Woods.
Located in New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal specializes in moderately priced cooking, history, and other non-fiction books. In 2006, the company launched a new program to re-publish low-priced hardcover editions of Agatha Christie mysteries. [4] Popular titles include Country Wisdom & Know-How, The Elements, and Knit Your Own Dog. Black Dog & Leventhal's authors include Theodore Gray, Jane Carole, and Josh Leventhal.
Storey Publishing was founded in 1983 in North Adams, Massachusetts. The company specializes in do-it-yourself books on gardening, crafts, nature, backyard building and other outdoor topics as varied as building your own log cabin and tanning leather yourself. Storey also publishes nature, horse and craft books aimed at young readers under the Storey Kids imprint. Popular titles include Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables, and The Vegetable Gardener's Bible. Storey's authors include Judith Durant, Edward C. Smith, and Gail Damerow amongst others.
Timber Press was founded in 1978 in Portland, Oregon. Timber focuses on more advanced gardening topics targeted at horticulturists, botanists, naturalists, and landscape professionals. Popular titles include The Edible Front Yard, What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?), and The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Timber's authors include David Deardorff, Ken Druse, Michael Dirr and Scott Ogden to name a few.
Artisan, founded in 1994 and based in New York City, publishes high quality illustrated books. Specializing in cooking, design, and popular culture topics, the house has received national attention for books such as Ad Hoc at Home, Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy, Design Sponge at Home, and Medal of Honor. Artisan’s cookbooks are frequently awarded IACP and James Beard Foundation Awards. Artisan authors include Grace Bonney, Jeni Britton Bauer, Alain Ducasse, Thomas Keller, Alice Medrich, Lucinda Scala Quinn, Frank Stitt, and David Tanis.
HighBridge Audio was initially founded by Minnesota Public Radio to produce and distribute recordings of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Since then, HighBridge focuses approximately 45 titles a year in the forms of spoken word audio cassettes, CDs and downloadable audio books. The company is best known for publishing public-radio related titles, as well as Oprah’s Book Club titles. HighBridge makes use of two readers in its audio book production for works primarily involving two main characters.[5] Popular titles include The Time Traveler's Wife, Water for Elephants, Life of Pi, and Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One.
Fearless Critic Media, founded in 2003 and part of Workman as of 2008, publishes food and wine books, including the Fearless Critic restaurant guide series and The Wine Trials, a guide to inexpensive wines.