Liveright

Liveright Publishing Corporation grew out of the storied Boni & Liveright press, one of the most important publishers of the early twentieth century. Under the editorial guidance of Horace Liveright the firm captured the flowering literature of the 1920s and 1930s, publishing some of the most celebrated American writers of the period, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Anita Loos and Theodore Dreiser. Alongside these great authors were poets of equal prominence, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, E.E. Cummings, Hart Crane, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and Robinson Jeffers, as well as founding members of the Harlem Renaissance and European intellectuals such as Sigmund Freud and Bertrand Russell. In choosing titles for publication, Horace Liveright sought out writers whose works, he hoped, would stand the test of time. As a result, a disproportionately high number of writers that the house signed up became foundational forces of modern literature and culture.

Though no original titles had been published bearing the distinctive cowled monk colophon of Liveright for many years, in 2012, W.W. Norton & Company re-launched the storied imprint, producing an inaugural catalogue of publications sure to once again secure Liveright as a pre-eminent publisher of the finest literature. Maintaining its high standards and progressive literary sensibilities in both fiction and nonfiction, the revived Liveright imprint releases have included trenchant political commentary by David Daley, magisterial and provocative work by biologist Edward O. Wilson, and culture-defining and redefining works by Philip Glass, Primo Levi, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Annette Gordon-Reed and Alan Ryan. Along with publishing new works, Liveright Publishing of the twenty-first century will continue to print classics from the twentieth century catalogue.

Like Norton, in its modern incarnation Liveright will be a home for outstanding works that provoke interest and inspire readers around the world.