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In the fifteen years immediately following World War II, paperback publishing came of age in the United States, with a handful of companies leading the way. Ten years after conceiving of the British based Penguin imprint in 1935, Allen Lane established an American branch called Penguin Books, Inc. (PBI). The two men that Lane hired to run PBI— Kurt Enoch and Victor Weybright—soon decided to separate from their British counterpart in 1948 and founded New American Library (NAL). Introducing Signet and Mentor as leading imprints, NAL began with titles such as William Faulkner's Sanctuary, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, and John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat. After selling at least 3 million copies of James Jones's From Here to Eternity in its first year of publication, NAL was quick to publish the popular fiction of Ian Fleming and Mickey Spillane.

"Good reading for the millions" was the slogan of the founders of NAL more than fifty years ago, and it is equally appropriate for today's NAL. Offering a wide selection of fiction and nonfiction, NAL aims at reaching the largest possible number of readers, the true mass market. The NAL imprints—Signet, Onyx, Signet Eclipse, Signet Classics, Roc, and NAL Trade Paperbacks—publish over four hundred titles each year. The majority of the titles are original works, supplemented by reprints originating primarily from sister imprints Dutton, and Putnam.

Most recent New York Times bestsellers for NAL include The Motive by John Lescroart, Iron Orchid by Stuart Woods, and The Innocent by Harlan Coben. NAL publishes numerous bestselling authors such as Ken Follett, Sara Paretsky, Terry McMillan, Sylvia Browne and Daniel Silva.

Kara Welsh

Vice-President, Publisher

Kara Welsh joined Penguin Putnam in September 2001 as Vice President, Publisher of New American Library. Before joining NAL, she was Vice President, Deputy Publisher of Pocket Books, where she worked for 13 years.

Awards

The Nobel Prize

1936: Eugene O'Neill, U.S. [Signet Classics]
1934: Luigi Pirandello, Italy [Signet Classics]
1930: Sinclair Lewis, U.S. [Signet Classics]
1929: Thomas Mann, Germany [Signet Classics]
1925: George Bernard Shaw, England [Signet Classics]
1923: William Butler Yeats, Ireland [Signet Classics]
1907: Rudyard Kipling, England [Signet Classics]

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

1930: Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy [Signet Classics]
1928: Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey [Current ed. Harper]
1926: Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith [Signet Classics]
1921: Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence [Signet Classics]



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