Penguin Press/Viking - Error?

[Dave Monroe]

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. 

During the 1960s, Viking published nonfiction by
Hannah Arendt, Barry Commoner Andre Maurois, and
Barbara Tuchman, as well as fiction by Ian Fleming,
Nadine Gordimer, Ken Kesey, Peter Matthiessen, and
Wallace Stegner. Richard Seaver joined the firm in
1971 and published authors under his own imprint,
including William S. Burroughs, Eugene Ionesco, Flann
O'Brien, and Octavio Paz. Viking's fiction list in the
1970s included Kingsley Amis, Robert Coover, Lawrence
Durrell, Frederick Forsyth, Judith Guest, Thomas
Pynchon (whose Gravity's Rainbow won the 1973 National
Book Award), and Muriel Spark. The nonfiction list
included Lewis Thomas (whose book Lives of a Cell won
the National Book Award in 1976) and Peter
Matthieseen, whose book The Snow Leopard won the 1979
National Book Award. In 1975, Viking was bought by
Penguin Books in England, and the company became known
as Viking Penguin. 

By the early 1980s, Viking had assembled a superb team
of editors, including Kathryn Court, Dan Frank, Nan
Graham, Gerald Howard, Elisabeth Sifton, Corlies
Smith, Amanda Vaill, Chuck Verrill, and Alan D.
Williams. Authors published during the 1980s included
Paul Auster, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Bruce Chatwin, Don
DeLillo (whose 1985 novel White Noise won the National
Book Award), Robertson Davies, Mary Gordon, William
Kennedy (whose 1983 novel Ironweed won the Pulitzer
Prize), Stephen King, David Lodge, D.M. Thomas, and
William Trevor. Lake Wobegon Days, the second novel by
the Minnesota humorist Garrison Keillor, sold over a
million copies in hardcover when it was published in
1985. Viking's 1989 publication of The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie unleashed a storm of controversy
when the Ayatollah Khomeni pronounced a fatwa on the
author. Viking Penguin author J. M. Coetzee became the
first author to win the Booker Prize twice, for Life
and Times of Michael K in 1983 and Disgrace in 1999.
Roddy Doyle won the Booker Prize in 1994 for his novel
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, and Carol Shields received the
Pulitzer Prize for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries.
Melissa Bank, Jared Diamond, Blanche Weisen Cook, John
Dean, Helen Fielding, Bill Gates, Elizabeth Gilbert,
Martha Grimes, Jan Karon, Mary Karr, John Keegan, Sue
Monk Kidd; Peter Kramer, Terry McMillan, Jacquelyn
Mitchard, Nathaniel Philbrick, Kevin Phillips, and
Witold Rybczynski. 

Viking currently publishes approximately 100 books
year. The house has earned acclaim and a solid
reputation for its ability to issue a broad range of
literary titles and for its highly selective and
successful list of commercial writers and bestsellers.
Viking is recognized for nurturing and increasing the
visibility of its established and more prominent
authors, while orchestrating the successful launch of
new and relatively unknown writers. Viking books are
distinguished by their quality and endurance—a fact
underscored by the long-term paperback success of many
of its titles in its sister imprint Penguin. 

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/adult/viking.html

I was surprised to see AtD under the Penguin imprint,
as I'm used to seeing eventual Penguin pbks come out,
if in cloth, under Viking first.  E.g., GR ...

--- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> ... the novel is published by Viking/Viking
> Penguin. Penguin Press isn't mentioned at all on
> the copyright page.


 
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