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The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh.

Dial Press shared a building with The Dial and Scofield Thayer worked with both. The first imprint was issued in 1924. ^[1]

Authors included Elizabeth Bowen, W.R. Burnett and Glenway Wescott, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin, Herbert Gold, Thomas Berger, Vance Bourjaily, and Norman Mailer.

In 1963 Dell Publishing Company acquired 60% of the Dial Press stock but the Press remained an independent subsidiary. It was jointly owned by Richard Baron and Dell Publishing; E. L. Doctorow was editor-in-chief. In 1969 the Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 Doubleday bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of Dial Press was sold to E. P. Dutton. Dutton would be bought by New American Library, which in turn became a part of the Penguin Group, a division of Pearson PLC. Doubleday dissolved Dial Press in 1985. The adult imprint was revived by Random House.

Notes

1. ^ Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library--Dial Press Records [1]

External links

• Dial Press Records at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

• For a chronology of key events, see Dial Press finding aid