Dial Press

Dial Press

Parent company	Penguin Random House
Founded	1923
Founder	Lincoln MacVeagh
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Imprints	Dial Books for Young Readers
Official website	dial-press.atrandom.com (adult) us.penguingroup.com (children)

The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.

Dial Press shared a building with The Dial and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924.

Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W. R. Burnett and Glenway Wescott, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Roy Campbell, Susan Berman, Herbert Gold, Thomas Berger, Vance Bourjaily, Judith Rossner, and Norman Mailer.

In 1963, Dell Publishing Company acquired 60% of the Dial Press stock but the Press remained an independent subsidiary. It was jointly owned by Richard Baron and Dell Publishing; E. L. Doctorow was editor-in-chief. In 1969 the Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 Doubleday bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of Dial Press (Dial Books for Young Readers) was sold to E. P. Dutton. Dutton would be bought by New American Library, which in turn became a part of the Penguin Group, a division of Pearson PLC. Doubleday dissolved Dial Press in 1985. The adult imprint was revived by Carole Baron the publisher of Dell at the time part of Bantan/Doubleday/Dell under the leadership of Susan Kamil. It went on to gain awards and bestellers. It was bought when BDD was sold to Random House. Penguin and Random House merged in 2013, forming Penguin Random House, with the main division part of Random House and the Young Readers division part of Penguin.

Notable Books published by Dial Press

• An American Dream, Norman Mailer
• Easy Street, Susan Berman
• The Detective, Roderick Thorp
• The Ecstasy Business, Richard Condon
• The Good Thief, Hannah Tinti
• I've Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella
• Mile High, Richard Condon
• Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid, Judith Rossner
• The Report from Iron Mountain
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• Stardance, Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
• The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Salvador Dalí
• Die Nigger Die!, H. Rap Brown
• Ethics: Origin and Development, Peter Kropotkin
• Secrets at Sea, Richard Peck, illustrated by Kelly Murphy
• The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail, Richard Peck, illustrated by Kelly Murphy
• Another Country, James Baldwin
• Little Big Man, Thomas Berger
• Confessions of a Spent Youth, Vance Bourjaily
• The Giant's House, Elizabeth McCracken
• It was gonna be like Paris, Emily Listfield
• The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

See also

• Atha Tehon, Art Director of Dial Books for Young Readers

External links

• Official website (Adult)
• Official website (About the Dial Press)
• Dial Press Records at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• Dial Press finding aid for chronological key events