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Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf (person)

Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. was a leading American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and Frank Nelson Doubleday, J....
 in 1915. It was acquired by Random House
Random House

Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German Privately held company media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing....
 in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi
Borzoi

The Borzoi is a dog breed of domestic dog also called the Russian Wolfhound.They have medium-length and slightly curly hair and are similar in shape to Greyhounds....
 trademark (shown at right). Many of its hardcover books later appear as Vintage
Vintage (publisher)

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf as a trade paperback home for its authors. Its publishing list includes works of world literature, contemporary American fiction, and non-fiction....
 paperback
Paperback

Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its bookbinding. The book covers of such books are usually made of paper or cardboard, and are usually held together with adhesive rather than stitches or Staple s....
s. Vintage is a sister imprint under the Knopf Publishing Group.

ominent publisher of distinguished hardcover
Hardcover

A hardcover is a book bookbinding with rigid protective covers . They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although most modern commercial hardcover books have glued spines....
 fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 and nonfiction, Knopf's list of authors includes Yann Martel
Yann Martel

Yann Martel is a Canada author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi....
, John Banville
John Banville

John Banville is an Ireland novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence , was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award....
, Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein is an United States journalism who, as a reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate burglaries and consequently helped bring about the resignation of United States President of the United States Richard Nixon....
, Robert Caro
Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro is a biographer most noted for his studies of Politics of the United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson....
, Willa Cather
Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather was an United States author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My ?ntonia, and The Song of the Lark....
, John Cheever
John Cheever

John Cheever was an United States novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Anton Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester County, New York suburbs, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born....
, Julia Child
Julia Child

Julia Child was an American chef, author and television personality, who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream, through her many cookbooks and television programs....
, Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton, Doctor of Medicine , was an United States author, film producer, film director, and physician, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and techno-thriller genres....
, Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
, Joan Didion
Joan Didion

Joan Didion is an United States journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. In a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's collection The White Album , critic Michiko Kakutani noted, "Novelist and poet James Dickey has called Didion 'the finest woman prose stylist writing in Eng...
, Fernanda Eberstadt
Fernanda Eberstadt

Fernanda Eberstadt is an United States writer.She is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Eberstadt, a writer....
, Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack , which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney....
, Joseph J.






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Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf (person)

Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. was a leading American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and Frank Nelson Doubleday, J....
 in 1915. It was acquired by Random House
Random House

Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German Privately held company media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing....
 in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi
Borzoi

The Borzoi is a dog breed of domestic dog also called the Russian Wolfhound.They have medium-length and slightly curly hair and are similar in shape to Greyhounds....
 trademark (shown at right). Many of its hardcover books later appear as Vintage
Vintage (publisher)

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf as a trade paperback home for its authors. Its publishing list includes works of world literature, contemporary American fiction, and non-fiction....
 paperback
Paperback

Paperback, softback, or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its bookbinding. The book covers of such books are usually made of paper or cardboard, and are usually held together with adhesive rather than stitches or Staple s....
s. Vintage is a sister imprint under the Knopf Publishing Group.

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A prominent publisher of distinguished hardcover
Hardcover

A hardcover is a book bookbinding with rigid protective covers . They may have flexible sewn spines which allow the book to lie flat on a surface when opened, although most modern commercial hardcover books have glued spines....
 fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 and nonfiction, Knopf's list of authors includes Yann Martel
Yann Martel

Yann Martel is a Canada author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi....
, John Banville
John Banville

John Banville is an Ireland novelist and journalist. His novel, The Book of Evidence , was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award....
, Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein is an United States journalism who, as a reporter for The Washington Post along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate burglaries and consequently helped bring about the resignation of United States President of the United States Richard Nixon....
, Robert Caro
Robert Caro

Robert Allan Caro is a biographer most noted for his studies of Politics of the United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson....
, Willa Cather
Willa Cather

Willa Sibert Cather was an United States author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My ?ntonia, and The Song of the Lark....
, John Cheever
John Cheever

John Cheever was an United States novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Anton Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester County, New York suburbs, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born....
, Julia Child
Julia Child

Julia Child was an American chef, author and television personality, who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream, through her many cookbooks and television programs....
, Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton, Doctor of Medicine , was an United States author, film producer, film director, and physician, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and techno-thriller genres....
, Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
, Joan Didion
Joan Didion

Joan Didion is an United States journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. In a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's collection The White Album , critic Michiko Kakutani noted, "Novelist and poet James Dickey has called Didion 'the finest woman prose stylist writing in Eng...
, Fernanda Eberstadt
Fernanda Eberstadt

Fernanda Eberstadt is an United States writer.She is the daughter of two patrons of New York City's avant-garde, Frederick Eberstadt, a photographer and psychotherapist, and Isabel Eberstadt, a writer....
, Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack , which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney....
, Joseph J. Ellis, Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a United Kingdom novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan, his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Masters degree from the University of East Anglia UEA Creative Writing Course in 1980....
, Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean

Thomas Howard Kean is an United States Republican Party politician, who served as the List of Governors of New Jersey Governor of New Jersey of New Jersey, from 1982 to 1990....
, John Keegan
John Keegan

Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom military historian, lecturer and journalist. He has published many works on the nature of combat between the 14th and 21st centuries concerning land, air, maritime and intelligence warfare as well as the psychology of battle....
, Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton

Lee Herbert Hamilton , the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, currently serves on the President of the United States's Homeland Security Advisory Council, having previously served in the United States House of Representatives for thirty-four years....
, Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen is an United States journalist and novelist....
, Jack London
Jack London

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books....
, Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann was a German literature, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, known for his series of highly symbolic and irony epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual....
, Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Jos? de la Concordia Garc?a M?rquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc?a M?rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century....
, Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature, is a Booker Prize-winning England novelist and screenwriter....
, P. D. Ouspensky
P. D. Ouspensky

Peter D. Ouspensky , was a Russian List of Russians who invoked euclidean geometry and non-euclidean geometry geometry in his discussions of higher consciousness and astral body....
, Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy , is an United States novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, Western fiction, and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction genres, and has also written plays and screenplays....
, Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison , is a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic poetry themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon , and Beloved , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988...
, Alice Munro
Alice Munro

Alice Ann Munro is a Canada short story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life....
, Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami

is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex"....
, Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini

Christopher Paolini is an American writer. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and an as yet untitled Book 4 ....
, Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski is an American civil engineering professor at Duke University where he specializes in failure analysis. He is a prolific author, having written a dozen books - most notably To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, every...
, Anne Rice
Anne Rice

Anne Rice is a best-selling United States author of gothic fiction and religious-themed books. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002....
, Susan Swan
Susan Swan

Susan Swan is a Canada author. Born in Midland, Ontario, Ontario, she studied at McGill University. Her list of works includes The Wives of Bath , and What Casanova Told Me ....
, Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt is an United States writer and author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend . She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003....
, Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning United States novelist. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated at age nineteen from Duke University, and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University in New York, New York....
, John Updike
John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ....
, Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss

Andrew Henry Vachss is an United States crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and Lawyer exclusively representing children and youths....
 and James D. Watson
James D. Watson

James Dewey Watson is an American molecular biology, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer...
.

Since its founding, Knopf has paid close attention to design and typography
Typography

Typography is the art and techniques of typesetting, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques....
, employing some of the United States' most recognized book designers and typographers including William Addison Dwiggins
William Addison Dwiggins

William Addison Dwiggins was a United States of America type designer, calligrapher, and book designer. He attained prominence as an illustrator and commercial artist, and he brought to the designing of type and books some of the boldness that he displayed in his advertising work....
, Steven Heller
Steven Heller (graphic design)

Steven Heller, , United States art director, journalist, critic, author, and editing who specializes on topics related to graphic design.Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography, and many subjects related to graphic design....
, Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is an United States author, Literary editor, and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers....
, Bruce Rogers, Rudolf Ruzicka
Rudolph Ruzicka

Rudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American Wood engraving, Etching, Illustration, typographer and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company for fifty years....
, and Beatrice Warde
Beatrice Warde

Beatrice Warde , was a communicator on typography. She was the only daughter of May Lamberton Becker, a journalist on the staff of the New York Herald Tribune, and Gustave Becker, composer and teacher....
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In 1991, Knopf revived the "Everyman's Library
Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library is a series of reprinted Western canon literature currently published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in the United States, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the United Kingdom....
" series, originally published in England in the early twentieth century. This series consists of classics of world literature in affordable hardcover editions. The series has grown over the years to include lines of Children's Classics and Pocket Poets.

External links

  • - Knopf's official website.
  • - Knopf's Lecture Bureau.
  • at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin

    The University of Texas at Austin is a public university research university located in Austin, Texas, Texas, United States, and is the flagship#University campuses institution of University of Texas System....