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27 unusual facts about HarperCollins


At the Edge

On September 1, 1990, Harper San Francisco published the book Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion, by Mickey Hart, Jay Stevens, and Fredric Lieberman.

Bertelsmann Building

High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, HarperCollins Publishers.

Birds Britannia

It has been announced that a book of the same title, by Stephen Moss, will be published by Collins in April 2011 (ISBN 978-0007413447).

Cathi Bond

She was the host of the podcast "Prosecast", which focused on Canadian authors and themes and was sponsored by HarperCollins Canada.

Cindy Villarreal

Cindy's book, "The Cheerleader's Guide to Life," was published by HarperCollins in April 1992, a deal struck by her agent, Jeff Herman Agency.

Erin E. Stead

She worked at Books of Wonder bookstore and as an assistant to the creative director at HarperCollins Children's Books.

Esther Jungreis

Rebbetzin Jungreis has written several books: Jewish Soul on Fire (William Morrow & Company - acclaimed one of the ten best Jewish books of the year by B'nai B'rith); The Committed Life: Principles of Good Living from Our Timeless Past (Harper Collins and translated into Hebrew, Russian and Hungarian and in its eighth edition) and The Committed Marriage (Harper Collins).

Good News Study Bible

Published in 1997 by The Bible Societies / HarperCollins, this uses the second edition of the GNB/TEV (with British spelling).

Hate That Cat

Hate that cat is a blank verse piece written by Sharon Creech and published by HarperCollins.

Helen O'Bannon

In 1976 O'Bannon published an economics text titled Money and Banking: Theory, Policy, and Institutions (Harper and Row, ISBN 0-06-044877-6).

Hindol Sengupta

In 2012, he published his first novel, The Liberals, with HarperCollins India.

How to Make Money Like a Porn Star

How to Make Money Like a Porn Star is the first graphic novel published by ReganBooks/HarperCollins, written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss and illustrated by artist Bernard Chang.

Kenzie

Kenzie released his autobiography in April 2005, published by HarperCollins, titled Kenzie: My Life.

Kumazawa Hiromichi

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York: HarperCollins.

Len Howard

Around 1949, Howard began publishing her field notes and "bird biographies" in British natural history periodicals, and in 1950 her first book was published by Collins Press.

New International Reader's Version

A children's version of this text, targeted at a third-grade reading level and featuring the characters of the Berenstain Bears, has been published by Zondervan and HarperCollins.

Pataskala, Ohio

Jeaniene Frost, New York Times Bestselling author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy for HarperCollins publishers.

Picnicface

Picnicface recently completed a feature film called Roller Town and a satirical book about Canada for HarperCollins Canada called Picnicface's Canada.

Robert Lecker

Lecker has edited numerous anthologies of Canadian literature from 1981 to the present, including one large anthology for HarperCollins in New York (the only anthology of Canadian literature published by a mainstream American publisher since 1943).

South Eugene High School

Ben Kaplan (author), (Class of 1995), Author, 'How to go to College Almost For Free' (HarperCollins); International Education and Scholarship Expert.

Surlingham

As E. A. Ellis, he wrote books including the volume on The Broads in Collins' New Naturalists series.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The book was inspired by children's books publisher at HarperCollins and Joyce's mentor William Morris.

Theodore Cross

He received widespread attention in 1987 for his attempt to acquire Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) for a reported $190 million, but was outbid by Rupert Murdoch.

Thomas Christopher Greene

His second novel, I'll Never Be Long Gone, was published in 2005 by HarperCollins and his third, Envious Moon, was published in 2007 also by HarperCollins.

Tisca Chopra

She is currently working on developing a script that she plans to produce with her pilot-author husband, Sanjay Chopra, and her book on making it in films Get Your Act Together (HarperCollins) is out in January 2014.

Tony Jeapes

Amended copies were published by HarperCollins in 1996 as SAS Secret War and again by Greenhill Books with the same title in paperback in 2005.

United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation versus the United States, 1775 to the Present. New York: HarperCollins.


Allan Sandage

Dennis Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: the story of the scientific quest for the secret of the Universe, HarperCollins 1991, Back Bay (with new afterword), 1999.

Being Different

Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism is a 2011 book by Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American author, philanthropist and public speaker, and published by HarperCollins.

Bella Sara

Other Bella Sara licensed products include: Bees and Jam sleepwear and intimate apparel, Jakks Pacific toy varieties, CodeMasters DS & PC game, Paradise Kids Pose-able Horses, Simply Fun Treasure Trot, HarperCollins Stories and Activity Books, MasterPieces Activities, Trends International Posters, Ultra Pro portfolios, and other international product lines.

Carol Bowman

Her first two books, Children's Past Lives (Bantam, 1997) and Return from Heaven (HarperCollins, 2001), about reincarnation, have been published in more than twenty three foreign languages.

Carson Ellis

Under Wildwood, written by Colin Meloy (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, September 25, 2012)

Chad Kultgen

#The Lie (2009, Published by Harper, HarperCollins, Harper Perennial)

Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War

It was published by HarperCollins in 1990 and written by David Callahan.

David Browne

He has written four books: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (HarperCollins, 2001) a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley; Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (Bloomsbury, 2004), a history of extreme sports; and Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Da Capo, 2008).

Enets people

Colin Thubron, In Siberia, HarperCollins, 1999, hardcover, 287 pages, ISBN 0-06-019543-6; British editions, Chatto & Williams or Sinclair Stevenson, October, 1999, hardcover, 320 pages, ISBN 1-85619-798-0; trade paperback, Penguin, September, 2000, 384 pages, ISBN 0-14-026860-X

Field guide

Specialist publishers such as Croom Helm, along with organisations like the Audubon Society, the RSPB, the Field Studies Council, National Geographic, HarperCollins, and many others all produce quality field guides.

Hougoumont

Roberts, Andrew; Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble, 2005, London: HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-719075-1

Iain McCalman

McCalman's 2003 book, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro, Flamingo (also HarperCollins, US and Random House, UK 2003), explores the life of the celebrated and infamous alchemist, magician, freemason, and global identity of the eighteenth century, Alessandro Cagliostro.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

In 2013 her book Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape, was published under the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins.

Jennifer Fallon

She is published by Snapping Turtle Books worldwide, in addition to some titles through Voyager Books in Australia, Tor and Random House in the United States, Orbit in the UK, AST in Russia, Heyne and Egmont in Germany and Luitingh Fantasy in The Netherlands.

John Francillon

Richard Kurin, Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem, New York: HarperCollins Publishers & Smithsonian Press, 2006.

Karan Bajaj

Bajaj's second novel, Johnny Gone Down, is a thriller published by HarperCollins-India in 2010.

Leigh Dragoon

In 2009 she wrote the script for the three-volume HarperCollins/Tokyopop manga series based on Frewin Jones' YA fantasy series The Faerie Path.

MarketWatch

Through the Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp. ownership, MarketWatch is also affiliated with, among many other global media properties, the New York Post, The Times of London, Fox News Channel and multiple other 20th Century Fox spinoffs, and HarperCollins publishers.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Zuckoff's previous book was Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, published in April 2011 by HarperCollins.

National Union of Greece

Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, London: HarperCollins, 2004.

Nick Barratt

: Trace Your Family Tree Back to the Tudors (with Anton Gill; HarperCollins, 2006)

Orin Hargraves

In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.

Peter V. Brett

He is the author of the Demon Cycle, whose first volume was published in the UK by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in 2008 as The Painted Man and in the US by Del Rey Books as The Warded Man.

Pukeko Pictures

Martin Baynton, co-owner and Executive Producer at Pukeko Pictures, is a writer and illustrator of children's books with over 30 titles published by major English and American houses including Walker Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Greenwillow.

Radclyffe Hall

Lovat Dickson (1975): Radclyffe Hall and the Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle (HarperCollins)

Robert Caplin

In 2010 Caplin spent six months on the road with and documented the international pop singer Justin Bieber and along with HarperCollins, put together Bieber's illustrated biography consisting of Bieber's words and Caplin's photos.

Socialist Patients' Collective

Book: Jillian Becker, Hitler's Children: Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang, HarperCollins Distribution Services; New edition (28 Jun 1978) ISBN 978-0-586-04665-4.

SoftBook

Publishers included HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, and others, and subscriptions to periodicals such as Newsweek, Time, and The Wall Street Journal were available (which could be downloaded automatically overnight if users kept the device plugged into a phone jack).

The Emerald Wand of Oz

The Emerald Wand of Oz is a 2005 book by Sherwood Smith and is a continuation of the Oz series that was started by L. Frank Baum in 1900 and continued by his many successors.The book is illustrated by William Stout and published by Harper Collins.

The Tiara Club

The Tiara Club is a series of children's books by Vivian French, and published by HarperCollins.

Ultralingua

As well as its own language data sets, third-party modules include an English-French medical dictionary licenced from Masson, the French division of Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, an English-Klingon dictionary developed in collaboration with the Klingon Language Institute and Simon & Schuster, and bilingual corpora developed in association with HarperCollins.

Victoria Holmes

The books consisting of four miniseries: Warriors, Warriors: The New Prophecy, Warriors: Power of Three, and Warriors: Omen of the Stars, as well as several short plays, novellas, and special editions, written by Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and new addition Tui Sutherland under the pen name Erin Hunter, and published by HarperCollins.

Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall (2009) is a multi-award winning historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire.