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The '''The Dial Press''' wasis a publishing house founded in [[1923 in literature|1923]] by [[Lincoln MacVeagh]].
 
<!-- Definite article used in citations to books from this imprint. -->The Dial Press shared a building with ''[[The Dial]]'' and [[Scofield Thayer]] worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924.<ref>Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library--Dial Press Records [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dialpress Hdl.handle.net]</ref>
 
Authors included [[Elizabeth Bowen]], [[W. R. Burnett]] and [[Glenway Wescott]], [[Frank Yerby]], [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]], [[Roy Campbell (poet)|Roy Campbell]], [[Susan Berman]], [[Herbert Gold]], [[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]], [[Vance Bourjaily]], [[Judith Rossner]], and [[Norman Mailer]].
 
== History ==
In 1963, [[Dell Publishing|Dell Publishing Company]] Company acquired 60% percent of theThe Dial Press's stock but the Press remained an independent subsidiary. It was jointly owned by Richard Baron (1923–2021)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/books/richard-baron-dead.html|title=Richard Baron, Who Published Baldwin and Mailer, Dies at 98|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=Sam|last=Roberts|date=June 14, 2021}}</ref> and Dell Publishing; [[E. L. Doctorow]] was editor-in-chief. In 1969 theThe Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of The Dial Press (Dial Books for Young Readers) was sold to [[E. P. Dutton]]. DuttonThe wouldchildren's bedivision of Dial Press published books under the Pied Piper imprint. Dutton was bought by [[New American Library]], which in turn became a part of the [[Penguin Group]], a division of [[Pearson PLC]]. When the Penguin Group obtained the rights to children's books published by The Dial Press, some were published in paperback under the imprint Puffin Pied Piper (because Puffin has been the longtime children's imprint for the Penguin Group). Doubleday dissolved Dial Press in 1985. The adult imprint was revived by Carole Baron, the publisher of Dell, at the time part of BantanBantam/Doubleday/Dell, under the leadership of [[Susan Kamil]]. It went on to gain awards and bestellersbestsellers. It was bought when BDD was sold to [[Random House]]. Penguin and Random House merged in 2013, forming [[Penguin Random House]], with the main division part of Random House and the Young Readers division part of Penguin.
 
==BooksNotable books published by The Dial Press==
*''[[An American Dream (novel)|An American Dream]]'', [[Norman Mailer]]
*''[[Easy Street (book)|Easy Street]]'', [[Susan Berman]]
*''[[The Detective (novel)|The Detective]]'', [[Roderick Thorp]]
*''[[The Ecstasy Business]]'', [[Richard Condon]]
*''[[The Good Thief (novel)|The Good Thief]]'', [[Hannah Tinti]]
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*''[[The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí]]'', [[Salvador Dalí]]
*''[[Die Nigger Die!]]'', [[H. Rap Brown]]
*''[[Ethics: Origin and Development]]'', [[Peter Kropotkin]]
*''[[Secrets at Sea (novel)|Secrets at Sea]]'', [[Richard Peck (writer)|Richard Peck]], illustrated by [[Kelly Murphy]]
*''See a Heart, Share a Heart'', [[Eric Telchin]]
*''[[The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail]]'', [[Richard Peck (writer)|Richard Peck]], illustrated by [[Kelly Murphy]]
*''[[Another Country (novel)|Another Country]]'', James Baldwin
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*''[[The Giant's House]]'', [[Elizabeth McCracken]]
*''It was gonna be like Paris'', Emily Listfield
* ''[[The War That Saved My Life]]'', [[Kimberly Brubaker Bradley]]
* ''The Short Novels of Dostoevsky'' (with introduction by [[Thomas Mann]]), [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], translated by [[Constance Garnett]]
* ''The Mysterious Tale of Gentle Jack and Lord Bumblebee'' [[George Sand]], illustrated by [[Gennady Spirin]], translated by [[Gela Jacobson]]
 
==Book series==
* The Bourbon Classics<ref>[https://seriesofseries.com/bourbon-classics/ Bourbon Classics], seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.</ref>
* The Dial Detective Library
* The Dial Standard Library
* Fireside Library
* The Golden Dragon Library<ref>[https://seriesofseries.com/golden-dragon-library/ Golden Dragon Library], seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.</ref>
* Library of Living Classics<ref>[https://seriesofseries.com/library-of-living-classics/ Library of Living Classics], seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.</ref>
* Permanent Library
* The Rogue's Library
 
== See also ==
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== Notes ==
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== External links ==
*{{official website|http://dial-press.atrandomthedialpress.com/}} (Adult)
*[[hdl:10079/fa/beinecke.dialpress|The Dial Press Records]]. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
*{{official website|http://dial-press.atrandom.com/about-the-dial-press/}} (About the Dial Press)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dialpress The Dial Press Recordsfinding aid] at Yale University Beinecke Rare Bookfor andchronological Manuscriptkey Libraryevents
*[http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.dialpress Dial Press finding aid] for chronological key events
 
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