Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster is one of the world's largest and most influential publishing companies. Founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln (Max) Schuster, the company has grown from a small New York publisher into a global leader in trade publishing. The founders launched the business after recognizing the growing popularity of crossword puzzles and published The First Crossword Puzzle Book, a groundbreaking title that became an immediate bestseller and established the company's commercial success. Today, Simon & Schuster is headquartered at 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York, USA, and operates as an independent publishing company owned by the global investment firm KKR, which completed its acquisition of the company from Paramount Global in 2023.

From its earliest years, Simon & Schuster distinguished itself through innovation, publishing books that appealed to a broad audience while maintaining high editorial standards. Over the past century, the company has expanded into virtually every major publishing category, including literary fiction, commercial fiction, mystery, thriller, romance, fantasy, science fiction, biography, memoir, history, politics, business, health, self-help, children's literature, religion, and popular science. It also owns numerous respected publishing imprints, including Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Free Press, Threshold Editions, Saga Press, and several children's publishing divisions, allowing it to serve a wide range of readers worldwide.

Simon & Schuster has published many of the most celebrated authors in modern literature. Among its distinguished writers are Stephen King, Walter Isaacson, Bob Woodward, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mary Higgins Clark, Colleen Hoover, Hillary Rodham Clinton, David McCullough, Anthony Doerr, Jeannette Walls, Frank McCourt, John Irving, R. L. Stine, Bret Easton Ellis, Bruce Springsteen, Jenny Han, V. E. Schwab, and Siddhartha Mukherjee. Through its Scribner imprint, the company also continues the legacy of publishing classic authors such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, whose works remain among the most widely read books in the English language.

The publisher's catalog includes an extraordinary number of bestselling and award-winning books. Among its most successful titles are The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, The Institute and numerous other novels by Stephen King, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, and The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. Many of these books have sold millions of copies worldwide, remained on bestseller lists for extended periods, and have been adapted into successful films, television series, or stage productions.

Simon & Schuster has enjoyed remarkable commercial success throughout its history. The company publishes approximately 2,000 new titles each year across print, digital, and audiobook formats, while maintaining an extensive backlist of thousands of active titles. Its books are distributed in more than 100 countries, translated into dozens of languages, and sold through retailers, libraries, educational institutions, and digital platforms around the world. Although the company does not regularly disclose precise annual book sales, industry reports consistently place Simon & Schuster among the largest trade publishers globally, generating well over US$1 billion in annual revenue in recent years. Its titles frequently dominate The New York Times Best Seller lists and achieve multi-million-copy global sales.

The publisher's achievements extend well beyond commercial performance. Simon & Schuster authors have received virtually every major literary honor, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and numerous PEN awards. Many of its nonfiction publications have shaped public discussion on politics, history, science, economics, and culture, while its fiction titles have become enduring classics studied in schools and universities worldwide.