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Viking Press

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[1] and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975.[2][3]

Parent company

Penguin Random House

Active

1925 (1925)

Harold K. Guinzburg, George Oppenheimer

United States

New York City

President-Brian Tart, Children's publisher Kenneth Wright

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

penguin.com/vikingbooks

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

Viking children's Books

Viking Portable Library

Pamela Dorman Books

consulting editor

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Wendy Wolf, vice president and associate editor, 1994-

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 and Richard Peck

S. E. Hinton

Further reading[edit]

Bean, Martha Sue. A History and Profile of the Viking Press, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Theses, 1969.


"Viking Press, Viking Penguin", Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 46, pp. 365-368.

at Penguin

Viking Press overview

at Penguin (page from August 28, 2006 stored by the Internet Archive)

Viking Press history

at Penguin

Viking Children's Books overview

at Penguin (page from April 26, 2008 stored by the Internet Archive)

Viking Children's Books history