Alfred A. Knopf
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- This page is about the publishing house. For the person see Alfred A. Knopf (person).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark. After a year in publication, its hardcover books are published as Vintage paperbacks.
Knopf is a well-known publisher of distinguished hardcover fiction and nonfiction. Its list of authors includes John Banville, Robert Caro, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Fernanda Eberstadt, Bret Easton Ellis, Carl Hiaasen, Michael Crichton, Kazuo Ishiguro, Thomas Kean, Lee H. Hamilton, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Anne Rice, Susan Swan, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Christopher Paolini and Nancy Tyler.
In 1991 the Knopf group revived the "Everyman's Library" series, originally published in England in the early 20th century. This series consists of classics of world literature in affordable hardcover editions. The series has grown over the years to include lines of Children's Classics and Pocket Poets.
