Kirkus Reviews is an American book review journal founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980). It serves the book and literary trade sector, including libraries, publishers, literary and film agents, film and TV producers and booksellers. It is owned by The Nielsen Company and is part of Nielsen Business Media's Literary Group, which also includes The Bookseller in the U.K.

Kirkus Reviews is published on the first and 15th of each month. Reviews appear two to four months prior to a book's publication, and it features approximately 4,500 titles per year: fiction, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, translations, nonfiction and children's and young-adult (YA) books. Kirkus has long been a respected, authoritative pre-publication review source within the literary and film industries.

As of April 2009, Eric Liebetrau is the managing editor and nonfiction editor, Elaine Szewczyk is the fiction editor, Thomas Leitch is the mystery editor, and Vicky Smith is the children's and YA editor.

[edit] See also

• ForeWord
• Library Journal
• Publishers Weekly
• San Francisco Review of Books

[edit] External links

• Kirkus Reviews' website
• Kirkus Discoveries