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Penguin Books
British publishing house
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Penguin Books Limited is an English publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
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🇺🇸 Ann Godoff Dies: Legendary Book Editor & Publisher Was Was 76Ann Godoff, the founder, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Penguin Press whose stable of authors included E.L. Doctorow, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Mic...
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🇺🇸 Ann Godoff, Penguin Press Founder and Editor, Dies at 76Ann Godoff, an editor and publisher for Penguin Press, died on Feb. 24 in Albany, N.Y. She was 76. Godoff died from complications of bone cancer in a ...
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