Tag: Late 1900s

1989: News Corporation forms a new worldwide group called Harper & Collins…

News Corporation acquires William Collins Ltd., and brings together Collins, Harper & Row, Gower Publishing, Times Books, Bartholomew, and Angus & Robertson in a new worldwide group called Harper & Collins. More

1990: HarperCollins becomes the new global company name…

On May 29, 1990, HarperCollins becomes the new global name for the combined Harper & Row and Collins. More

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Newbery Award winner about the power of family, which has sold over 4.5 million copies. More

The Hunt for Red October

Clancy’s debut novel launched a spectacular career and introduced the world to a new hero, Jack Ryan. More

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

This 1972 Booker Prize–nominated novel was also made into a 1978 Australian film. More

The Beginner’s Bible

Revolutionized the way children are introduced to the stories of the Bible. More

Fermat’s Last Theorem

International number one bestseller about solving a puzzle that had confounded mathematicians since the seventeenth century. More

The Dispossessed

The classic utopian science fiction; winner of the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Awards. More

Monster

Winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. More

Gorky Park

First book in the Arkady Renko series, which became an instant bestseller and changed the crime fiction genre. More

1970: Zondervan publishes the number one nonfiction bestseller of the decade…

Zondervan publishes The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey, which becomes the number one nonfiction bestseller of the decade. More

Cigarette packet with Timothy Findley’s handwritten book proposal for Pilgrim

While at lunch with his editor, Iris Tupholme, Canadian author Timothy Findley reached into his pocket to read from a note that he had written on the inside flap of his cigarette package. More

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pulitzer Prize winner; considered one of the classic works of creative nonfiction of the late twentieth century. More

The Stone Diaries

Winner of the 1993 Governor General’s Award (Canada) and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More

Flow

The psychology classic that explored creativity and happiness. More

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World

Seminal work that launched Gorbachev’s reform movement. More

The HarperCollins Logo

The HarperCollins logo represents the 1990 consolidation of Harper & Row, based in New York, and Collins Publishers, based in London and Glasgow. More

Angus & Robertson in Australia

Ten thousand miles from his homeland, Scotsman David Mackenzie Angus paid £50 to open a small bookshop on Market Street in Sydney, Australia. More

New King James Version Bible (NKJV)

One of the top three bestselling Bibles, alongside the NIV and the KJV. More

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Classic, irreverent novel that helped spark the modern movement of environmental activism. More

Journey to Jo’burg

Groundbreaking book set in South Africa during the apartheid era and banned by its government. More

Bernard Cornwell

Born in London in 1944, Bernard Cornwell grew up in Essex and, after a stint as a teacher, moved on to the BBC, where he took a job as a producer in Northern Ireland. More

1971: William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is published…

William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist becomes the first horror story to reach number one on the New York Times bestseller list and helps initiate the modern horror film movement. More

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez drew on his childhood experiences in Colombia when crafting the story of the fictional Buendía family in the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. More

1996: George R.R. Martin redefines the fantasy genre…

George R.R. Martin redefines the fantasy genre with his epic series, A Song of Ice and Fire, published by HarperCollins in the UK. More

A People’s History of the United States

Classic national bestseller that made a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. More

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

Memoir offering a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome. More