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| Parent company | Penguin Group |
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| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Jeremy P. Tarcher (1932–2015) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | TarcherPerigee at Penguin.com |
TarcherPerigee is a book publisher and imprint ofPenguin Group focused primarily onmind, body and spiritualism titles, founded in 1973 by Jeremy P. Tarcher inLos Angeles. (Tarcher was married to ventriloquistShari Lewis, and his sister was novelistJudith Krantz.)
Tarcher began his career in publishing in the early 1960s, putting together packaged book deals for celebrities such asPhyllis Diller,Johnny Carson,[1][2]Zsa Zsa Gabor,Buddy Hackett, andJoan Rivers,[2] but changed direction after a retreat at theEsalen Institute, an early center of thehuman potential movement located inBig Sur, California.[1]
Receiving no interest from the New York publishing establishment in publishing books on these subjects, he began his own publishing venture, and went on to publish bestselling books from many previously-unknown authors working on health, psychology, philosophy, andNew Age spiritutality. They includeJoy's Way by W. Brugh Joy;[1] "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" byBetty Edwards; Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class byhot yoga guruBikram Choudhury; the English translation of Austrian mountaineer andNaziSS sergeantHeinrich Harrer'sSeven Years in Tibet (originally published in German in the 1940s); andThe Aquarian Conspiracy byMarilyn Ferguson.[1][2] He "discovered" many of these authors through his ongoing relationship withMichael Murphy, the co-founder of Esalen Institute, who also published several books with Tarcher[3] and served on the board of Esalen for years.[4]
Over the years, the company expanded to includenonfiction books of all types.Putnam purchased the company in 1991, and the offices were moved to New York. Tarcher remained head of the company until early 1996, when Joel Fotinos was named publisher. The firm merged with sister imprint Perigee to form TarcherPerigee in 2015.[5]
Tarcher died in Los Angeles in 2015 from complications ofParkinson's disease. He was 83.[1][2]
TarcherPerigee publications cover a broad spectrum of topics in the areas of wellness, self-improvement, spirituality, esoterica, occultism, creativity, social consciousness, prosperity, and more.[6] Recent bestsellers include2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl,Ultramarathon Man,The Dumbest Generation,The Wonder of Boys,Energy Medicine,The Power of Kindness, andThink & Grow Rich.[7][8]
In the field of 'success literature' TarcherPerigee publishes authors such asNapoleon Hill,Michael Muhammad Knight,Wallace D. Wattles,Dale Carnegie, andJames Allen. Among the imprint's authors in the field of mind, body, and spiritualism areRobin Norwood,Stephen Mansfield,Betty Edwards,Heinrich Harrer,Marilyn Ferguson (author ofThe Aquarian Conspiracy), Bikram Choudhury, andJim Knipfel.[9]
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