Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House,[1] one of the largest publishing companies in the world,[citation needed] owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013.[2] Villard was founded in 1983.[3]
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| Parent company | Ballantine Books Random House |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1983 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | ballantine |
Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House and is currently a sub-imprint of Ballantine Books, itself an imprint of Random House.[citation needed] It was named after a Stanford White brownstone mansion on Madison Avenue that was the home of Random House for twenty years.[3]
Books
1985
1987
- Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay
- Pattern Crimes, William Bayer
1988
1989
1990
1991
- Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: Rise and Fall of the Ceauşescus, Edward Behr
1992
- Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Shot John Lennon, Jack Jones[6]
- The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
1993
- Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission, Gloria Brame
- Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi, Morris Dees & Steve Fiffer
- The Fifties, David Halberstam
- Primal Fear, William Diehl
1994
- Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, Edwin Diamond.
- Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, John Boswell
- Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received, Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, ISBN 0-679-43176-4
- Mary Cassatt: A Life, Nancy Mowll Mathews
- The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia
1995
- Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain
- The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories, Paul Kingsbury
- Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
1996
1997
- Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain.
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer
1998
- Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
2000
- The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, written by George Saunders, illustrated by Lane Smith
- Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories, Dan Rhodes
2001
- Necessary Targets, Eve Ensler
2003
- Vagabonding: An uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel, Rolf Potts
- A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, Jane Juska
2004
- Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Ken Goffman.
2005
2006
- The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bobby Henderson[7]
2007
- Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab, written by Melissa Plaut
- Macedonia, written by Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson, with illustrations by Ed Piskor
- Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, Brian Coleman
2008
- Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe
- The Big Skinny, Carol Lay
- How Can I Keep From Singing (revised edition), biography of Pete Seeger, by David Dunaway
- The presidential book of lists: from most to least, elected to rejected, worst to cursed: Fascinating facts about our chief executives, Ian Randal Strock
2009
- Farewell, My Subaru, Doug Fine
2010
- I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, Eve Ensler
External links
- Villard- publisher's website. Archived June 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine