PublicAffairs
| Parent company | Perseus Books Group |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Peter Osnos |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Fiction genres | Nonfiction |
| Official website | www |
PublicAffairs (or PublicAffairs Books) is a book publishing company located in New York City and has been a part of the Hachette Book Group since 2016.
PublicAffairs was launched in 1997 by Peter Osnos.[1] The current Publisher is Clive Priddle.[2] The company publishes mostly non-mainstream non-fiction books about politics and current affairs, both American and international.
It has published several books by Nobel Prize-winning authors, including Muhammad Yunus's Banker to the Poor and Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo's two books Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times .
In 2019, it published Shoshana Zuboff's international bestseller The Age of Surveillance Capitalism .
Perseus Books won Publishers Weekly's "Publisher of the Year" award for 2007.[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ "PublicAffairs Books: Also available". PublicAffairs. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ "About Us". PublicAffairs. September 15, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- ^ Millot, Jim (December 3, 2007). "Publisher of the Year". Publishers Weekly. Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on January 6, 2008. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
External links
[edit ]- Company web site
- A film clip "The Open Mind - "The problem with books" (2007)" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive
- Panel discussion on the 20th anniversary of PublicAffairs Books, April 17, 2018, C-SPAN
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