Spiegel & Grau was originally a publishing imprint of Penguin Random House founded by Celina Spiegel and Julie Grau in 2005.

Spiegel & Grau
Founded2005 (2005)[1]
FounderCelina Spiegel, Julie Grau
Country of originUSA
Headquarters locationNew York City
Nonfiction topicsMemoirs, Journalism, Self-help, History
Fiction genres(various)
Official websiteSpiegel & Grau

On January 25, 2019, Penguin Random House announced that the imprint was being shut down and the two founders were leaving.[2][3] While commercially successful, the imprint "became yet another casualty of corporate restructuring," according to the New York Times.[4]

In 2020, founders Celina Spiegel and Julie Grau resurrected their publishing house under the name Spiegel & Grau. They said the independent publisher will produce 15 to 20 books a year, as well as original audiobooks and podcasts.[5]

In 2021, Spiegel & Grau's first release as an independent entity, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven, became an instant New York Times bestseller.

Authors

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Writers whose work has been published by Spiegel & Grau include the following:[6]

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  1. ^ The Groom to Have Been, winner of the 2008 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
  2. ^ Map of the Invisible World (2008)
  3. ^ Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (2008), awarded the 2009 PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
  4. ^ Nothing to Envy (2009), awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and a National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist
  5. ^ Pym (2011)
  6. ^ Too Fat to Fish (2008), co-written with Anthony Bozza
  7. ^ American Rust (2009), winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  8. ^ I Am the New Black (2009), co-written with Anthony Bozza
  9. ^ Stone's Fall (2009)
  10. ^ Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (2012)
  11. ^ Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (2010)
  12. ^ U.S. publisher of A Fraction of the Whole (2008), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

References

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  1. ^ Wyatt, Edward. "2 Editors, Successful at Penguin, to Start a Book Division at Doubleday". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  2. ^ Alter, Alexandra. "Penguin Random House Closes the Prestigious Imprint Spiegel & Grau". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ Deahl, Rachel. "PRH Closing Spiegel & Grau Imprint". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  4. ^ Alter, Alexandra (January 25, 2019). "Penguin Random House Closes the Prestigious Imprint Spiegel & Grau". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Alter, Alexandra (December 18, 2020) "Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back." New York Times. (Retrieved December 19, 2020.)
  6. ^ "Our Authors". Spiegel & Grau, Random House. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
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