HarperCollins Publishers

200 Years of HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers began as J. & J. Harper, a small family printing shop run by brothers James and John Harper in New York City in March 1817. More

1856: The first Collins Atlas is published

The first Collins Atlas is published. More

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

At the Mountains of Madness

Lovecraft’s work has influenced the whole spectrum of those working in the horror genre. More

Barbara Taylor Bradford

When I say I have the need to write, I do mean need. More

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Emily Post’s Etiquette

This “bible of etiquette” has been published by HarperCollins for more than three decades. More

All the Light We Cannot See

The multimillion-copy bestseller and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More

The Year of Magical Thinking

Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More

Stuart MacBride

Original cover artwork for a 1965 edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

This original illustration by Italian artist Giorgio de Gasperi was used as cover art for a 1965 edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe published by Collins in the U.K. More

Harry the Dirty Dog

Classic dog story; childhood favorite that has charmed readers for more than fifty years. More

The Odyssey of Homer

Hailed as “the best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet” (New York Times Book Review). More

1924: “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie joins the house of Collins…

Agatha Christie and Collins enjoying a drink at a party.

“Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie joins the house of Collins, and two years later publishes her seminal Hercule Poirot novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. More

HarperCollins’s connections to nascent science fiction and fantasy worlds began with works such as Edward Lytton Bulwer’s The Coming Race (1871), and H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) and The Invisible Man (1898). More

Agatha Christie

The house of Collins acquired “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie after she disagreed with her former publisher over the spelling of “coco”/”cocoa” in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. More

Judith Kerr

Why I write: Usually, so that I can do the illustrations. More

Judith Kerr

The Purpose Driven Life

The bestselling hardback nonfiction book in history, it has sold more than 30 million copies. More

Life on Earth

Established Sir David as a foremost naturalist and an iconic and beloved figure in British cultural life. More

Education and Publishing

Title pages of several books featured in Harper’s Family Library in the 1830s, including The History of the Bible and The Lives of Celebrated Travelers.

Beginning in 1830, the Harper brothers believed that the increasingly literate populace might clamor for turnkey collections. More

1973: William Collins and Sons secures the rights to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago…

William Collins and Sons secures the rights to Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, an eye-opening work that exposes in startling detail the horrors of the communist regime in Russia. More