What is Viking Press?
'''Viking Press''' (formally '''Viking Penguin''', also listed as '''Viking Books''') is an American [[publishing company]] now owned by [[Penguin Random House]]. It was founded in [[New York City]] on March 1, 1925.<ref name=newyork>{{cite book|author1=Kenneth T. Jackson|author2=Lisa Keller|author3=Nancy Flood|title=The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1995|location=[[New York City]]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300055368|isbn=978-0300055368|url-access=registration}}</ref> It was bought by the [[Penguin Group]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Egli|title=Viking Press Is Sold To Penguin Books|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_school-library-journal_1975-12_22_4/page/n17|journal=[[School Library Journal]]|publisher=[[Media Source Inc.]]|location=[[New York City]]|volume=22|issue=4|page=16|year=1975}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/11/archives/viking-press-is-sold-to-penguin-books.html|first=Alden|last=Whitman|author-link=Alden Whitman|title=Viking Press Is Sold to Penguin Books|work=[[The New York Times]]|location=[[New York City]]|date=November 11, 1975|access-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:1925 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1920s establishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:Publishing companies of the United States]] [[Category:Companies based in New York City]]