Broadway Books

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Broadway Books
Parent company
Crown Publishing Group (Random House)
Founded1995
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
Publication typesBooks
Official websitecrownpublishing.com/broadway-books

Broadway Books, an imprint of the

Random House, Inc., released its first list in Fall, 1996. Broadway was founded in 1995 as a unit of Bantam Doubleday Dell a unit of Bertelsmann.[1] Bertelsmann acquired Random House in 1998 and merged Broadway into a combined group with Doubleday the next year.[2] Random House reorganized again in 2008, with Doubleday moving to Knopf and Broadway moving to its current home at Crown.[3] Broadway's general-interest publishing was combined with Crown in 2010.[4] Broadway became the paperback publisher for the Crown imprint in 2010.[5]

Broadway Books has published many

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Decision Points by George W. Bush, Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
, and A Lion Called Christian by Ace Bourke and John Rendall.

Broadway Books publishes a paperback list, in categories including narrative nonfiction, memoir, health and wellness, diet and fitness, inspiration, history, travel and adventure narrative, pop culture, politics, personal finance, popular reference, humor, and contemporary fiction.

Travel writers in their “Broadway Abroad” category were Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun), Bill Bryson (A Walk in the Woods) and Martin Troost (Lost on Planet China and Getting Stoned With the Savages). Notable memoirs include Eric Clapton’s Clapton, the bestselling rock autobiography of all time, the New York Times bestsellers Escape by Carolyn Jessop and No Shortcuts to the Top by climber Ed Viesturs, as well as Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.

In the field of personal finance, Broadway's titles include

vegetarian
guru Deborah Madison.

Authors

Works published

  • The Concise Guide To Sounding Smart At Parties

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  3. ^ "The End of an Era at Random House". Observer. 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  4. ^ Rich, Motoko. "Changes Continue at Crown Publishing". Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  5. ^ "Crown Realigns Trade Paperback Operations". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-10-14.

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