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Viking Press is an American publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
. It was founded in New York City
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....
 on March 1, 1925 by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. The firm's name and logo—a Viking ship
Viking ship

Viking ship is a collective term for ships used during the Viking Age in Northern Europe. They often had a dragon head or other circular object protruding from the front and back, for design....
 drawn by Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent was an United States Painting, printmaker, illustrator, and writer....
—were meant to evoke the ideas of exploration and enterprise implied by the word "Viking
Viking

A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....
".

The house has been home to many prominent authors of fiction, non-fiction, and play scripts. Viking authors have received five Nobel Prizes for Literature and one Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
; their books have won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Award
National Book Award

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award"....
s, and other important literary prizes.

Viking currently publishes approximately 100 books a year.






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Viking Press is an American publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
. It was founded in New York City
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....
 on March 1, 1925 by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. The firm's name and logo—a Viking ship
Viking ship

Viking ship is a collective term for ships used during the Viking Age in Northern Europe. They often had a dragon head or other circular object protruding from the front and back, for design....
 drawn by Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent was an United States Painting, printmaker, illustrator, and writer....
—were meant to evoke the ideas of exploration and enterprise implied by the word "Viking
Viking

A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....
".

The house has been home to many prominent authors of fiction, non-fiction, and play scripts. Viking authors have received five Nobel Prizes for Literature and one Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
; their books have won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Award
National Book Award

The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" and the "Literarian Award"....
s, and other important literary prizes.

Viking currently publishes approximately 100 books a year. It is notable for publishing both successful commercial fiction and acclaimed literary fiction and non-fiction. Viking's paperbacks are published by Penguin Books. Viking's current president is Clare Ferraro.

The Viking Children's Book department was established in 1933; its founding editor was May Massee. Its books have won the Newbery
Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association ....
 and Caldecott
Caldecott Medal

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year....
 Medals, and include such perennial favorites as Corduroy
Corduroy (book)

Corduroy is a 1968 in literature book written by Don Freeman, and published by Viking Press. It tells the story of a teddy bear named Corduroy, who is bought in a department store by a girl named Lisa....
, Make Way for Ducklings
Make Way For Ducklings

Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941 in literature, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
, The Outsiders
The Outsiders (novel)

The Outsiders is a novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she began writing the novel and 17 when it was published....
, Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking

File:Pippi Langstrumpf Pippi Longstocking.jpgPippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Sweden author Astrid Lindgren....
, and The Story of Ferdinand
The Story of Ferdinand

File:Ferdinand the Bull.jpgThe Story of Ferdinand is the most well known work written by United States author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson ....
. Its paperbacks are published by Puffin Books
Puffin Books

Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s and '70s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world....
, which includes the Speak
Speak

Speak can mean:* Speech communication* SPEAK , a Maryland-based organization for suicide prevention* Speak , the Hungarian rap artist and internet phenomenon famous for his anti-war video...
 and Firebird
Firebird Books

Firebird Books is an imprint of Penguin Group Inc., publishing mainly paperback reprint editions of science fiction and fantasy for teenagers and adults....
 imprints. Viking Children's current president and publisher is Regina Hayes.

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see also The 21 Balloons, written and Illustrated by William Pene du Bois
William Pène du Bois

William P?ne du Bois, , was a French American author and illustrator. He was best known for The Twenty-One Balloons, published in April, 1947 by The Viking Press....
, Copyright 1947 and Newbery medal winner of 1948



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