Viking Press#Imprints

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| parent = Penguin Random House

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| founded = {{start date and age|1925}}

| founders = Harold K. Guinzburg
George Oppenheimer

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| country = United States

| headquarters = New York City

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| keypeople = Brian Tart (president)
Kenneth Wright (Children's publisher)

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Viking Kestrel
Viking Adult
Viking Children's Books
Viking Portable Library

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| website = {{URL|https://www.penguin.com/overview-vikingbooks/|penguin.com/vikingbooks}}

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Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer{{cite book|author1=Kenneth T. Jackson|author2=Lisa Keller|author3=Nancy Flood|title=The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1995|location=New York City|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300055368|isbn=978-0300055368|url-access=registration}} and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975.{{cite journal|editor1-last=Egli|title=Viking Press Is Sold To Penguin Books|journal=School Library Journal|publisher=Media Source Inc.|location=New York City|volume=22|issue=4|page=16|year=1975}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/11/archives/viking-press-is-sold-to-penguin-books.html|first=Alden|last=Whitman|author-link=Alden Whitman|title=Viking Press Is Sold to Penguin Books|work=The New York Times|location=New York City|date=November 11, 1975|access-date=May 28, 2020}}

Imprints

Viking Kestrel
Viking Adult, who got in legal trouble in 1946 due to John Steinbeck's bold eulogy, and fell out of public favor in 1947{{clarify|date=May 2023}}
Viking children's Books
Viking Portable Library
Pamela Dorman Books

=Viking Children's=

In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published was The Story About Ping in 1933 under editor May Massee. Junior Books was later renamed Viking Children's Books. Viking Kestrel was one of its imprints.

Its books have won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and include such books as The Twenty-One Balloons, written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois (1947, Newbery medal winner for 1948), Corduroy, Make Way for Ducklings, The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (1993), The Outsiders, Pippi Longstocking, and The Story of Ferdinand. Its paperbacks are now published by Puffin Books, which includes the Speak and Firebird imprints. In 2023, Tamar Brazis was named v-p and publisher of Viking Children's Books.{{cite web |last1=Kantor |first1=Emma |title=Brazis, Santopolo promoted at Penguin Young Readers |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/91314-brazis-santopolo-promoted-at-penguin-young-readers.htm |website=Publishers Weekly |access-date=March 6, 2024}}

=Viking Critical Library=

The Viking Critical Library offers academic editions of literary texts. Like W. W. Norton's Norton Critical Editions, all titles print the text alongside a selection of critical essays and contextual documents (including relevant extracts from the author's oeuvre). The series, which only saw sporadic publications in the late 1970s and late 1990s, has been dormant since 1998, with no new titles released since then. However, a number of existing titles remain in print.

;Titles

Author	Title	Editor !Year published	Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
Don DeLillo	White Noise	Mark Osteen \|1998	.
Graham Greene	The Quiet American	John Clark Pratt \|1996
James Joyce	Dubliners	Robert Scholes \|1996
James Joyce	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Chester G. Anderson \|1977	The only title known to include explanatory end notes.
Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	John Clark Pratt \|1977	Out of print.
Jack Kerouac	On the Road	Scott Donaldson \|1979	Out of print.
Arthur Miller	The Crucible	Gerald Weales \|1996
Arthur Miller	Death of a Salesman	Gerald Weales \|1996
John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	Kevin Hearle \|1997

Notable authors

Notable editors

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, consulting editor
Wendy Wolf, vice president and associate editor, 1994-

Awards

10 Newbery Medals
10 Caldecott Medals
27 Newbery Honors
33 Caldecott Honors
1 American Book Award
2 Coretta Scott King Awards
3 Batcheldor Honors
5 Christopher Medals
2 Margaret A. Edwards Awards for authors S. E. Hinton and Richard Peck

References

External links

[https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/penguin-general/viking Viking Press overview] at Penguin
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061028174548/http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/adult/viking.html Viking Press history] at Penguin (page from August 28, 2006 stored by the Internet Archive)
[http://www.penguin.com/publishers/vikingchildrensbooks/ Viking Children's Books overview] at Penguin
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080426192733/http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/youngreaders/vikingyr.html Viking Children's Books history] at Penguin (page from April 26, 2008 stored by the Internet Archive)

Category:Book publishing companies based in New York (state)

Category:Publishing companies based in New York City

Category:Publishing companies established in 1925

Category:1925 establishments in New York City

Category:1975 mergers and acquisitions

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