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Dial Press

The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.

Parent company

1923

Dial Books for Young Readers

thedialpress.com (adult)
penguin.com (children)

The Dial Press shared a building with The Dial and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924.[1]


Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Burnett and Glenway Wescott, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Roy Campbell, Susan Berman, Herbert Gold, Thomas Berger, Vance Bourjaily, Judith Rossner, and Norman Mailer.


In 1963, Dell Publishing Company acquired 60 percent of the Dial Press stock but the Press remained an independent subsidiary. It was jointly owned by Richard Baron (1923–2021)[2] and Dell Publishing; E. L. Doctorow was editor-in-chief. In 1969 the Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 Doubleday bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of Dial Press (Dial Books for Young Readers) was sold to E. P. Dutton. The children's division of Dial Press published books under the Pied Piper imprint. Dutton was bought by New American Library, which in turn became a part of the Penguin Group, a division of Pearson PLC. When the Penguin Group obtained the rights to children's books published by the Dial Press, some were published in paperback under the imprint Puffin Pied Piper (because Puffin has been the longtime children's imprint for the Penguin Group). Doubleday dissolved Dial Press in 1985. The adult imprint was revived by Carole Baron, the publisher of Dell, at the time part of Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, under the leadership of Susan Kamil. It went on to gain awards and bestsellers. It was bought when BDD was sold to Random House. Penguin and Random House merged in 2013, forming Penguin Random House, with the main division part of Random House and the Young Readers division part of Penguin.

, Norman Mailer

An American Dream

, Susan Berman

Easy Street

, Roderick Thorp

The Detective

, Richard Condon

The Ecstasy Business

, Hannah Tinti

The Good Thief

, Sophie Kinsella

I've Got Your Number

, Richard Condon

Mile High

Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid,

Judith Rossner

The Report from Iron Mountain

, James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

, Salvador Dalí

The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

, H. Rap Brown

Die Nigger Die!

, Peter Kropotkin

Ethics: Origin and Development

, Richard Peck, illustrated by Kelly Murphy

Secrets at Sea

See a Heart, Share a Heart,

Eric Telchin

, Richard Peck, illustrated by Kelly Murphy

The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail

, James Baldwin

Another Country

, Thomas Berger

Little Big Man

Confessions of a Spent Youth,

Vance Bourjaily

, Elizabeth McCracken

The Giant's House

It was gonna be like Paris, Emily Listfield

, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The War That Saved My Life

The Short Novels of Dostoevsky (with introduction by ), Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

Thomas Mann

The Mysterious Tale of Gentle Jack and Lord Bumblebee , illustrated by Gennady Spirin, translated by Gela Jacobson

George Sand

The Bourbon Classics

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The Dial Detective Library

The Dial Standard Library

Fireside Library

The Golden Dragon Library

[4]

Library of Living Classics

[5]

Permanent Library

The Rogue's Library

Art Director of Dial Books for Young Readers

Atha Tehon

Official website

. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Dial Press Records

for chronological key events

Dial Press finding aid