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Title
Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant
Description
The South African Nobel Laureate was commended by the Nobel committee as a novelist "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
The Viking Press was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. The firm's name and its logo, a Viking ship drawn by Rockwell Kent, were chosen as symbols of enterprise, adventure, and exploration in publishing. In August 1925, before any titles had been published, Viking acquired the twenty-three year old firm of B.W. Huebsch; Huebsch brought with him a backlist of titles by James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Sherwood Anderson. The first Viking list in the Fall of 1925 included books by James Weldon Johnson and August Strindberg, and later publications in that decade included biographies by Carl van Doren and Vita Sackville-West, and nonfiction by Mohandas Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and Thorstein Veblen.
By Viking's tenth anniversary in 1935, the firm's average output was forty titles. Three years later, editor Pascal Covici joined the staff, bringing with him John Steinbeck; Viking published Steinbeck's first novel, The Long Valley, in 1938, followed in 1939 by The Grapes of Wrath. The first trade edition of Joyce's Collected Poems was published in 1937, followed two years later by the first American edition of Finnegans Wake. With Brighton Rock (1938), Graham Greene began a long line of publications at Viking. Saul Bellow's long tenure at Viking began in 1953 with his third novel, The Adventures of Augie March, which won that year's National Book Award. Herzog (1964) and Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) also won the National Book Award, and Humboldt's Gift (1975) received the Pulitzer Prize; Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976. In 1956, Iris Murdoch joined Viking for the first of her many novels with The Flight From the Enchanter, and the classic novel of the Beat Generation, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, was published by Viking in 1957, followed one year later by The Dharma Bums.
Languages
English
Contact
- CHAMPION, EDWARD
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- SAN FRANCISCO CA
- United States 94122-1171
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- 415 564 2343
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