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Riverhead Books

Index Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1993 by Susan Petersen Kennedy. [1]

29 relations: Anne Lamott, Book, Booker Prize, Chang-Rae Lee, Daniel Alarcón, Daniel H. Pink, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Dinaw Mengestu, Geoffrey Kloske, George Saunders, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, James McBride (writer), Jon Ronson, Junot Díaz, Khaled Hosseini, MacArthur Fellows Program, Marlon James (novelist), Meg Wolitzer, National Book Foundation, New York City, Nick Hornby, Patricia Lockwood, Penguin Group, Sarah Vowell, Steven Johnson (author), Stonewall Awards, TED (conference), United States, 14th Dalai Lama.

Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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Book

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Chang-Rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University.

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Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón (born 1977 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American author.

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Daniel H. Pink

Daniel H. Pink (born 1964) is an author of books about work, management, and behavioral science.

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Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an annual United States literary award "recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace" that was first awarded in 2006.

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Dinaw Mengestu

Dinaw Mengestu (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer.

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Geoffrey Kloske

Geoffrey Kloske (born 1969) is the vice president and publisher of Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Group.

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George Saunders

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels.

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Hurston-Wright Legacy Award

The Hurston-Wright Legacy Award is a literary award given by the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

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James McBride (writer)

James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician.

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Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011).

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Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review.

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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini (خالد حسیني.;; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Marlon James (novelist)

Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer.

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Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American writer, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, and The Interestings. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nick Hornby

Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist.

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Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood is an American poet and essayist.

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Penguin Group

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House.

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Sarah Vowell

Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress.

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Steven Johnson (author)

Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science author and media theorist.

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Stonewall Awards

The Stonewall Awards was an annual event by Stonewall to recognize people who have affected the lives of British lesbian, gay, bi and trans people.

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverhead_Books

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