# Riverhead Books

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{{Short description|American publishing company, imprint of Penguin Group}}
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'''Riverhead Books''' is an imprint of [Penguin Group (USA)](/source/Penguin_Group_(USA)) founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy.

Writers published by Riverhead include [Ali Sethi](/source/Ali_Sethi), [Marlon James](/source/Marlon_James_(novelist)), [Junot Díaz](/source/Junot_D%C3%ADaz), [George Saunders](/source/George_Saunders), [Khaled Hosseini](/source/Khaled_Hosseini), [Nick Hornby](/source/Nick_Hornby), [Anne Lamott](/source/Anne_Lamott), [Carlo Rovelli](/source/Carlo_Rovelli), [Randall Munroe](/source/Randall_Munroe), [Patricia Lockwood](/source/Patricia_Lockwood), [Sarah Vowell](/source/Sarah_Vowell), the [Dalai Lama](/source/14th_Dalai_Lama), [Chang-rae Lee](/source/Chang-rae_Lee), [Meg Wolitzer](/source/Meg_Wolitzer), [Dinaw Mengestu](/source/Dinaw_Mengestu), [Daniel Alarcón](/source/Daniel_Alarc%C3%B3n), [Daniel H. Pink](/source/Daniel_H._Pink), [Steven Johnson](/source/Steven_Johnson_(author)), [Jon Ronson](/source/Jon_Ronson), [Ellen Burstyn](/source/Ellen_Burstyn), [Elizabeth Gilbert](/source/Elizabeth_Gilbert), [Erri De Luca](/source/Erri_De_Luca), [James McBride](/source/James_McBride_(writer)), [Jing Tsu](/source/Jing_Tsu),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kingdom of Characters|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550748/kingdom-of-characters-by-jing-tsu/|access-date=February 14, 2022|website=Penguin Random House}}</ref> [C Pam Zhang](/source/C_Pam_Zhang), [Garrard Conley](/source/Garrard_Conley) and [Nicholas Binge](/source/Nicholas_Binge).

Authors published by Riverhead won the [Dayton Literary Peace Prize](/source/Dayton_Literary_Peace_Prize)<ref>[https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2011-finalists-press_release.htm "Celebrating the Power of Literature to Promote Peace, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Announces 2011 Finalists"]. Dayton Literary Peace Prize.</ref> for four out of its first six years. Four authors have won [MacArthur Genius Grant](/source/MacArthur_Genius_Grant)s and many writers Riverhead has published have given [TED Talks](/source/TED_Talks). Riverhead authors have won PEN and other literary awards, including the [Booker Prize](/source/Booker_Prize), the [Hurston/Wright Legacy Award](/source/Hurston%2FWright_Legacy_Award) for writers of African descent, the [Stonewall Award](/source/Stonewall_Award) for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender fiction, and the [National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35](/source/National_Book_Foundation's_5_Under_35) for the best young emerging voices. Four authors were included in ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)''{{'}}s "20 under 40" list of young fiction writers. In 2019, Riverhead author [Olga Tokarczuk](/source/Olga_Tokarczuk) won the [Nobel Prize in Literature](/source/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature).

The publisher of Riverhead is [Geoffrey Kloske](/source/Geoffrey_Kloske).

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.riverheadbooks.com Riverhead Books website]

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