Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world, owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. Villard was founded in 1983.
Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House and is currently a sub-imprint of Ballantine Books, itself an imprint of Random House. It was named after a Stanford White brownstone mansion on Madison Avenue that was the home of Random House for twenty years.
Books
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
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 Joneshttp://www.classicbands.com/JackJonesInterview.html Interview with investigative reporter Jack Jones about Let Me Take You Down - Inside The Mind of Mark David Chapman 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, 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 American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Nancy Rubin Stuart
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 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.
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