Information about Bantam Books
Bantam Books is a major U.S. publishing house owned by Random House and is part of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine. It has since been purchased several times by many companies including National General and currently Random House.
Bantam has published the entire original run of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books, as well as the first original novels (aimed at adults) based upon the Star Trek franchise, publishing about a dozen such books between 1970 and 1982 when the licence was taken over by Pocket Books. Bantam also published a dozen volumes of short story adaptations of scripts from . Bantam is the American paperback publisher of The Guinness Book of Records.
In their Bantam Classics Series, they offer a wide range of classic books (e.g. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Candide by Voltaire or Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) from all kinds of different authors and themes.
Bantam has published the entire original run of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books, as well as the first original novels (aimed at adults) based upon the Star Trek franchise, publishing about a dozen such books between 1970 and 1982 when the licence was taken over by Pocket Books. Bantam also published a dozen volumes of short story adaptations of scripts from . Bantam is the American paperback publisher of The Guinness Book of Records.
In their Bantam Classics Series, they offer a wide range of classic books (e.g. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Candide by Voltaire or Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) from all kinds of different authors and themes.
Authors
Bantam has published a diverse range of authors, including:- Isaac Asimov
- Louis L'Amour
- Ray Bradbury
- William T. Cox
- S. S. Van Dine
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- Frederick Forsyth
- Lisa Gardner
- Elizabeth George
- William Gibson
- John Glenn
- Daniel Goleman
- Graham Greene
- Stephen Hawking
- Tami Hoag
- Robin Hobb
- James D. Hornfischer
- Iris Johansen
- Emilie Loring
- Daniel Quinn
- Shmuel Katz
- Dean Koontz
- Robert Ludlum
- William March
- George R. R. Martin
- Anne McCaffrey
- Joseph Murphy
- Michael Palmer
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Tom Robbins
- Jane Roberts
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
- Jerry Seinfeld
- John Steinbeck
- Neal Stephenson
- Bruce Sterling
- Rex Stout
- William Tenn
- Elie Wiesel
- Alan Campbell
- Adam Smith
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Ian Keith Ballantine (February 15, 1916 – March 9, 1995) was a pioneering American publisher who founded and published the innovative paperback line of Ballantine Books from 1952 to 1974 with his wife, Betty Ballantine.
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Betty Ballantine (born 1919), is a publisher who, with her husband Ian Ballantine formed Bantam Books in 1945 and Ballantine Books in 1952. They became freelance publishers in the 1970s. Their son Richard is an author and journalist specialising in cycling topics.
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Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks first published by Bantam Books from 1979-1998 and currently being re-published by Chooseco. Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and
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Children's literature is a literary genre whose primary audience is children, although many books within the genre are also enjoyed by adults.
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Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster which primarily publishes paperback books.
Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry.
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Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry.
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The short story is a literary genre. It is usually fictional narrative prose and tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the modern sense of this term) and novels.
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Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U.S. editions The Guinness Book of World Records
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The Bantam Books Classics is a book series with some of the greatest classic books of all time. More than a hundred books in the series and millions of them are sold.
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List of Books
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9,1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 (OS) / June 16 (NS) 1723 – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist. He is a major contributor to the modern perception of free market economics.
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Candide
This is the frontispiece of the 1759 edition published by Sirène in Paris. It reads, "Candide, or Optimism. Translated from the German of Dr. Ralph."
Author Voltaire
Original title Candide, ou l'Optimisme
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This is the frontispiece of the 1759 edition published by Sirène in Paris. It reads, "Candide, or Optimism. Translated from the German of Dr. Ralph."
Author Voltaire
Original title Candide, ou l'Optimisme
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François-Marie Arouet (21 November, 1694 – 30 May, 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and
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Around the World in Eighty Days
First edition cover from 1873
Author Jules Verne
Original title Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Illustrator De Neuville and Benett[1]
Country France
Language French
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First edition cover from 1873
Author Jules Verne
Original title Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Illustrator De Neuville and Benett[1]
Country France
Language French
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar.
Born: January 8 1828
Nantes, France
Died: March 24 1905 (aged 77)
Amiens, France
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: French
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Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar.
Born: January 8 1828
Nantes, France
Died: March 24 1905 (aged 77)
Amiens, France
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: French
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Isaac Asimov
A photograph of Asimov taken by Jay Kay Klein
Pseudonym: Dr. A, Paul French, George E. Dale
Born: January 2?, 1920?[1]
Petrovichi, Russian SFSR
Died: March 6 1992 (aged 72)
New York, New York, USA
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A photograph of Asimov taken by Jay Kay Klein
Pseudonym: Dr. A, Paul French, George E. Dale
Born: January 2?, 1920?[1]
Petrovichi, Russian SFSR
Died: March 6 1992 (aged 72)
New York, New York, USA
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Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. He was born Louis Dearborn L'Amour of French-Canadian background March 22, 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota.
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury in 1975 (photo by Alan Light).
Born: July 22 1920
Waukegan, Illinois
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Nationality: American
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Ray Bradbury in 1975 (photo by Alan Light).
Born: July 22 1920
Waukegan, Illinois
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Nationality: American
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S. S. Van Dine was the pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939), a U.S. art critic and author. He created the once immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance, who first appeared in books in the 1920s, then in movies and on the radio.
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Stephen Reeder Donaldson
Pseudonym: Reed Stephens
Born: May 13 1947
Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation: writer
Nationality: American
Genres: fantasy, mystery
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Pseudonym: Reed Stephens
Born: May 13 1947
Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation: writer
Nationality: American
Genres: fantasy, mystery
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Frederick Forsyth
Born: July 25 1938
Ashford, Kent, England
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: British
Writing period: 1969 - present
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Born: July 25 1938
Ashford, Kent, England
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: British
Writing period: 1969 - present
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Lisa Gardner is an American author of fiction. She is the author of several thrillers including The Killing Hour and The Next Accident. She also wrote romance novels using the pseudonym Alicia Scott.
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Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American author of a number of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels featuring Inspector Lynley have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
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William Gibson
William Gibson in August 2007
Born: March 17 1948
Conway, South Carolina
Occupation: novelist
Writing period: 1977 ?
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William Gibson in August 2007
Born: March 17 1948
Conway, South Carolina
Occupation: novelist
Writing period: 1977 ?
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In office
December 24, 1974–January 6, 1999
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Born July 18 1921
Cambridge, Ohio
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December 24, 1974–January 6, 1999
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Succeeded by
Born July 18 1921
Cambridge, Ohio
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Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an internationally renowned author, psychologist, science journalist, and corporate consultant. His parents were college professors in Stockton, California, where his father taught world literature at what is now San Joaquin Delta College,
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Henry Graham Greene
Born: September 2 1904
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Died: March 3 1991 (aged 88)
Vevey, Switzerland
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright, Short story writer
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Born: September 2 1904
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Died: March 3 1991 (aged 88)
Vevey, Switzerland
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright, Short story writer
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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking
Born January 8 1942
Oxford, England
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Stephen William Hawking
Born January 8 1942
Oxford, England
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Tami Hoag
Born: January 20
Minnesota
Occupation: novelist
Nationality: United States
Writing period: 1988-present
Genres: contemporary romance, suspense
Website: [1]
Tami Hoag
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Born: January 20
Minnesota
Occupation: novelist
Nationality: United States
Writing period: 1988-present
Genres: contemporary romance, suspense
Website: [1]
Tami Hoag
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