Villard (imprint)

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]

Villard

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.atrandom.com[dead link‍]

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

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1985

• The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James

1987

• Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay
• Pattern Crimes, William Bayer

1988

• All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum

1989

• Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World, Noah Benshea^[4][5]

1990

• Latin for All Occasions, Henry Beard

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

• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

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

• What We Do Is Secret, Thorn Kief Hillsbery
• Zanesville, Kris Saknussemm

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

References

1. PRH Staff (March 7, 2024). "Penguin Random House [PRH] Imprints". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
2. Germano, Sara (December 18, 2019). "Bertelsmann Takes Full Ownership of Penguin Random House". The Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com). Retrieved March 7, 2024. The [2019] acquisition [through purchase of the remaining 25% stake] completes a joint venture between Bertelsmann and British publisher Pearson PLC, who in 2013 combined their respective book units, Random House and Penguin.
3. Random House Staff (March 6, 2009). "The Random House Publishing Group: About Us". RandomHouse.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
4. "Noah benShea's The Journey to Greatness". Thejourneytogreatness.com. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
5. "AUTHOR, AUTHOR, AUTHOR : Bagels : Noah benShea writes about the person he aspires to be. In 'Jacob's Journey,' that man sets out to reconcile his route to reality". Los Angeles Times. October 17, 1991.
6. http://www.classicbands.com/JackJonesInterview.html Interview with investigative reporter Jack Jones about Let Me Take You Down - Inside The Mind of Mark David Chapman
7. $80,000 for Pastafarian Bible AngsumanNovember 14th, 2005 (November 14, 2005). "$80,000 for Pastafarian Bible". Angsuman.taragana.net. Retrieved January 28, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)