| Parent company | Perseus Books Group |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Peter Osnos |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Fiction genres | Nonfiction |
| Official website | www |
PublicAffairs (orPublicAffairs Books) is a book publishing company located inNew York City and has been a part of theHachette Book Group since 2016.
PublicAffairs was launched in 1997 byPeter 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, includingMuhammad Yunus'sBanker to the Poor andAbhijit V. Banerjee andEsther Duflo's two booksPoor Economics andGood Economics for Hard Times.
In 2019, it publishedShoshana Zuboff's international bestsellerThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
Perseus Books wonPublishers Weekly's "Publisher of the Year" award for 2007.[3]
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