Status | Active |
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Founded | 1969 |
Founder | Paul Kurtz |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Amherst, New York |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Nonfiction topics | Skeptical literature |
Fiction genres | Science fiction |
Imprints |
Pyr (for science fiction), Humanity Books (for academic works in the humanities), Seventh Street Books (for thrillers and mysteries) |
Official website | www.prometheusbooks.com |
Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz, also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Prometheus Books publishes a range of books, focusing on topics such as science, freethought, secularism, humanism, and skepticism. Their headquarters is located in Amherst, New York, and they publish worldwide.
Authors published by Prometheus include Leon Lederman, John W. Loftus, Guy P. Harrison, Victor Stenger, Martin Gardner, Antony Flew, R. Barri Flowers, Nathan Salmon, Ibn Warraq, George H. Smith, Rob Boston, James Randi, Isaac Asimov, Steve Allen, Joe Nickell, Molefi Asante, S. T. Joshi, Philip J. Klass, Julian Huxley, Sidney Hook, Frederich Nietzsche, Ludwig Feuerbach, Robert M. Price, David Ricardo, utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, John Maynard Keynes, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Rod Pyle and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Toles.