Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned by Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine. It has since been purchased several times by many companies including National General and currently Random House.

Bantam has published the entire original run of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books, as well as the first original novels (aimed at adults) based upon the Star Trek franchise, publishing about a dozen such books between 1970 and 1982 when the licence was taken over by Pocket Books. Bantam also published a dozen volumes of short story adaptations of scripts from Star Trek: The Original Series. Bantam is the American paperback publisher of The Guinness Book of Records.

In their Bantam Classics Series, they offer a wide range of classic books (e.g. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Candide by Voltaire or Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) from all kinds of different authors and themes.

[edit] Authors

Bantam has published a diverse range of authors, including:

Tracy Hickman Margaret Weis J.D. Salinger Maya Angelou Isaac Asimov Jean Auel Louis L'Amour Ray Bradbury Alan Campbell Agatha Christie William T. Cox S. S. Van Dine James Dobson Stephen R. Donaldson Frederick Forsyth Lisa Gardner David Gemmell Elizabeth George William Gibson John Glenn

Daniel Goleman Graham Greene John Grisham Laurell K. Hamilton Thomas Harris Stephen Hawking Mo Hayder Hermann Hesse Tami Hoag Robin Hobb Kay Hooper Iris Johansen Shmuel Katz Dean Koontz Emilie Loring Lois Lowry Robert Ludlum William March George R. R. Martin Malachi Martin

Anne McCaffrey Farley Mowat Joseph Murphy Michael Palmer Robert M. Pirsig Daniel Quinn Tom Robbins Jane Roberts Alice Schroeder H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jerry Seinfeld Adam Smith John Steinbeck Neal Stephenson Bruce Sterling Rex Stout William Tenn Mark Twain Elie Wiesel

[edit] See also

• Bantam Spectra
• Rafael Palacios (artist)

[edit] External links

• Official website

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