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| Parent company | HarperCollins |
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| Founded | 1964 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | harperperennial |
Harper Perennial is a paperbackimprint of the publishing houseHarperCollins Publishers.[1]
Harper Perennial has divisions located in New York, London,Toronto, and Sydney. The imprint is descended from the Perennial Library imprint founded byHarper & Row in 1964. In fall of 2005, Harper Perennial rebranded with a new logo (an Olive) and a distinct editorial direction emphasizing fiction and non-fiction from new and young authors. In the end matter, books often feature a brand-specific P.S. section that features extra material such as interviews.
Recent notable books includeI Am Not Myself These Days byJosh Kilmer-Purcell,The Yacoubian Building byAlaa Al Aswany,This Will Be My Undoing byMorgan Jerkins,The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz,Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neil,Grab On to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way by Bryan Charles, andThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. In November 2011, they releasedThe Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels by Richard Paul Roe, a detailed examination of the locales mentioned in ten plays by Shakespeare.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, a direct offshoot of the imprint, publishes authors such asPeter Singer,Harper Lee,Zora Neale Hurston,Aldous Huxley,Russell Banks,Thomas Pynchon,Milan Kundera,Gabriel García Márquez,Sylvia Plath, andThornton Wilder.