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2 unusual facts about Riverhead Books


Anna Winger

Winger's first novel, This Must Be the Place, was published in 2008 by Riverhead Books.

Mary Pipher

Mary Elizabeth Pipher, PhD, (born October 21, 1947), also known as Mary Bray Pipher, is an American clinical psychologist and author, most recently of The Green Boat, which will be published by Riverhead Books in June 2013.


Anthropology of an American Girl

The new version was edited by Cindy Spiegel, senior vice president and publisher of Spiegel & Grau, and former vice president and publisher of Riverhead Books, where she edited Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.

Erik Reece

Reece's 2006 book Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), with photos by John J. Cox and a foreword by Wendell Berry, chronicles the devastating effects of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia from October 2003 through November 2004.

Will Kreth

Mark Frauenfelder, Carla Sinclair, Gareth Branwyn, Will Kreth (editors) The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates, Riverhead Books, November 1995, ISBN 1-57322-502-9


see also

Conceptual economy

Pink, Daniel H.: A Whole New Mind : moving from the information age to the conceptual age, New York: Riverhead Books, 2005, 260 p.

Margaret Talbot

She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012).