Random House Creates New Imprint, The Library of Contemporary Thought

Posted on January 12, 1998

Random House, Inc., is launching a new, innovative trade paperback series of nonfiction books, to be published by The Ballantine Publishing Group under the imprint of "The Library of Contemporary Thought." The announcement was made today by Linda Grey, President of The Ballantine Group.

One new title in the series will be issued on the third Tuesday of every month. Launching the line on Tuesday, March 17, 1998 will be John Feinstein's The First Coming: Tiger Woods, Master or Martyr?, followed on Tuesday, April 21, by Vincent Bugliosi's No Island Of Sanity: Paula Jones vs. Bill Clinton, The Supreme Court on Trial

Nationally best-selling and award-winning writers whose works are scheduled for publication next year include Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life); Carl Hiaasen (Team Rodent: How Disney Devours The World); and Pete Hamill (News Is A Verb: Journalism at the End of the Century). Others who will contribute to the new imprint include former President Jimmy Carter, who will examine the subject of aging from a personal and societal perspective; Edwin Schlossberg on how the extraordinary advances made in modern communications tools have completely transformed the way creators must create; William Sterling, Executive Director and Head of Global Equities at BEA Associates, examining the current boom economy; and Robert Hughes, on his love of fishing. Also Nora Ephron, Susan Isaacs, Joe Klein, Donna Tartt, and Don Imus.

A first printing in the range of 75,000 copies is planned for each title -- at prices spanning from $7.95 to $9.95.