In Nothing Random, the former PW contributing editor chronicles the life of Random House cofounder Bennett Cerf. What drew you to Bennett Cerf? I discovered that there was this huge Random House ...

The chief executive of the largest publisher in the U.S., Penguin Random House, has stepped down. Markus Dohle oversaw the attempted acquisition of Simon & Schuster. By Elizabeth A. Harris and ...

Has there been a bigger page-turner in the book world this year than the repeated missteps of Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle? His attempt to merge PRH with Simon & Schuster was thwarted by the ...

These words were spoken with the confidence of a man who knows he is the subject of an Esquire feature. His photo catches him mid-laugh, brown eyes squinting behind horn-rimmed glasses, ...

In 1924, Connecticut first-grade teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979) wrote the first version of The Boxcar Children, which she republished 18 years later in a revised edition. The novel ...