Founded in 1998 and based in midtown Manhattan, Bloomsbury USA is a general-interest publisher of books for adults and children, known for its high-quality fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, as well as its extensive academic publishing by the world's most respected experts.
On the adult side, Bloomsbury has published Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones (winner of the National Book Award for Fiction), Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (finalist for the National Book Award for Non-Fiction), Dr. Louise Aronson's Eye of the Tiger. Louise Aronson's Elderhood (Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Carol Anderson's White Rage (NBCC Criticism Winner), Susanna Clarke's Piranesi and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential; as well as works by award-winning authors Sam Quinones, Edmund White and Mark Kurlansky and bestselling authors Mary Pipher, Miriam Toews, Deborah Levy, Samantha Shannon and Elif Shafak.
Bloomsbury Children's Books publishes books for readers of all ages, including Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together (Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award), Salina Yoon's My Kite Is Stuck! And Other Stories (Theodore Seuss Geisel Award), Martin W. Sandler's 1919 (National Book Award), Nick Lake's In Darkness (Michael L. Printz Award) and Lilliam Rivera's Never Look Back (Pura Belpré Honor); as well as works by New York Times bestselling authors Brigid Kemmerer and Danielle Paige.
Bloomsbury is also the global publisher of #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas and the original publisher of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series in the UK.
