DAW Books

DAW Books is an American science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim following his departure from Ace Books in 1971. The company claims to be "the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy."[1] The first DAW Book published was the 1972 short story collection Spell of the Witch World by Andre Norton.[2]

DAW Books
Parent companyPenguin Group
(Penguin Random House)
(de facto)
Founded1971 (1971)
FounderDonald A. Wollheim
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City, United States
DistributionPenguin Random House
Key peopleElizabeth R. Wollheim
Sheila E. Gilbert
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresScience fiction, fantasy
Owner(s)Elizabeth R. Wollheim
Sheila E. Gilbert
Official websitedawbooks.com


In its early years under the leadership of Wollheim and his wife Elsie, DAW gained a reputation of publishing popular, though not always critically acclaimed, works of science fiction and fantasy. Nevertheless, in the 1970s the company published numerous books by award-winning authors such as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Fritz Leiber, Edward Llewellyn, Jerry Pournelle, Roger Zelazny, and many others. In 1982, C. J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.[3]

Until June 1984, all DAW books were characterized by yellow spines, and a prominent yellow cover box containing the company's logo as well as a chronological publication number. When the design was changed, the chronological number was retained, but moved to the copyright page and renamed the DAW Collectors' Book Number. Although it has a distribution relationship with Penguin Group and is headquartered in Penguin USA's offices in New York City, DAW is editorially independent and closely held by its current publishers, Betsy Wollheim (Donald's daughter) and Sheila E. Gilbert.[4][5]

Authors
gollark: Floating pointers. My genius is unparalleled.
gollark: (4 components, 80 bits each so they can hold 64 bits of significand, to represent pointers)
gollark: (80 * 4, of course)
gollark: All Macron "floats" are actually 320-bit quaternions.
gollark: Did you know? Go numeric constants have arbitrary precision.

References
A number of paperback books published by DAW
  1. http://www.penguin.com/publishers/daw/
  2. "Publication: Spell of the Witch World". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. "1982 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 2011-05-07. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  4. Lassen, Jeremy (July 26, 2003). "A View From Corona #12". Night Shade Books. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  5. "Locus Online: Betsy Wollheim interview excerpts". Locus. June 2006. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
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