Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint. Founded in 1942 as an independent publishing house in New York City by Kurt and Helen Wolff, it specialized in introducing progressive European works to American readers. In 1961, it was acquired by Random House, and André Schiffrin was hired as executive editor, who continued to publish important works, by both European and American writers, until he was forced to resign in 1990 by Random House owner Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and president Alberto Vitale. Several editors resigned in protest, and multiple Pantheon authors including Stud…

Books from Pantheon Books

• Chain-gang All-stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Bolla by Pajtim Statovci
• The Brother Years by Shannon Burke
• Ordinary Insanity Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick
• The Search for Heaven A Historian Investigates the Case for the Afterlife by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
• Fay Wray and Robert Riskin A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin
• Marvelocity Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross by Chip Kidd
• A Reckoning by Linda Spalding
• The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
• The Rope by Kanan Makiya
• There's Something I Want You to Do Stories by Charles Baxter
• The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe by Alexander McCall Smith
• Another Time, Another Life The Story of a Crime by Leif G. W. Persson
• Wicked River The Mississippi when it Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin
• 13 Bankers The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson, James Kwak
• The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris
• The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
• Elsewhere, U.S.A. by Dalton Conley
• The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith
• My First Movie, Take Two Ten Celebrated Directors Talk about Their First Film : Richard Linklater, Richard Kelly, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Shekhar Kapur, Emir Kusturica, Agnès Jaoui, Lukas Moodysson, Terry Gilliam, Sam Mendes by Stephen Lowenstein
• Autobiography of a Wardrobe by Elizabeth Kendall
• The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell
• Alias the Cat! by Kim Deitch
• Mask Market A Burke Novel by Andrew H. Vachss
• The Things that Matter What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life by Edward Mendelson
• Reunion by Lightman, Alan
• Father of the Man by Robert Mooney
• Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Williams, Terry Tempest
• Miss Wyoming by Coupland, Douglas
• Connect by Edward M. Hallowell
• From the Journals of M.F.K. Fisher by Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher
• Successful Aging by John Wallis Rowe, Robert L. Kahn
• Mister Jelly Roll The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of Jazz" by Alan Lomax
• Maus a survivor's tale by Art Spiegelman
• Into Their Labours A Trilogy by John Berger
• Seeing Through Movies by Mark Crispin Miller
• Federico García Lorca A Life by Ian Gibson
• The Great Divide Second Thoughts on the American Dream by Studs Terkel
• Women and Children First by PROSE, Francine
• Cow by Sterchi, Beat