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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books
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Parent company Random House
Founded 1942; 75 years ago (1942)
Founder Kurt Wolff & Helen Wolff,
Kyrill S. Schabert,
Jacques Schiffrin
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location New York City
Key people Dan Frank, Editorial Director
Publication types Books
Official website pantheon.knopfdoubleday.com

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence. It is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

The current editor-in-chief at Pantheon Books is Dan Frank.

Bertelsmann, the German company that also owns Bantam Books, Doubleday Publishing, Dell Publishing, Times Books, the Modern Library, Everyman's Library, Vintage Books, Crown Publishing Group, Schocken Books, Ballantine Books, Del Rey Books, Fawcett Publications also acquired Random House in 1998, making Bertelsmann the largest publisher of American books.

In addition to classics, international fiction, and trade paperbacks, recently Pantheon has moved aggressively into the comics market. It has published many critically acclaimed graphic novels and comics collections, including Ice Haven, La Perdida, Read Yourself RAW, Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Black Hole. Many of its comics publications are high-quality collected editions of works originally serialized by other publishers such as Fantagraphics Books.


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