About Us

Ivan R. Dee publishes serious nonfiction for general readers, with emphasis in history, politics, biography, literature, philosophy, theater, and baseball. We are a non-ideological house, publishing on all sides of the political spectrum. Our books are routinely reviewed in major media such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and other influential publications. Ivan R. Dee paperbacks are also used extensively in college courses as supplementary reading.

Among our authors are Brooke Allen, Ira Berkow, Isaiah Berlin, Jeremy Bernstein, Robert Brustein, Ivan Bunin, Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, Theodore Dalrymple, Roger Daniels, Joseph Epstein, Renee Fox, John Gross, Raul Hilberg, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Ismail Kadare, Roger Kimball, Adam Kirsch, Hilton Kramer, David Kyvig, Primo Levi, Heather Mac Donald, Peter Morris, Ogden Nash, William O'Neill, Joseph Parisi, John Prados, Carl Sandburg, Richard Schickel, Arthur Schnitzler, Budd Schulberg, Red Smith, B. Traven, Ivan Turgenev, and Rebecca West.

New Amsterdam Books, an imprint of Ivan R. Dee, publishes distinguished books in art and art history, fiction in translation, theater, Scottish studies, Victorian studies, religion, and history. We no longer accept accept new manuscript submissions for New Amsterdam Books.

J. S. Sanders & Company, an imprint of Ivan R. Dee, was founded by John Sanders of Nashville, Tennessee, to publish and republish general trade books in Southern culture, history, and literature, including the Southern Classics Series, a series which "restores to our awareness some of the South's most important writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" (Hudson Review). Many classic novels about the South, as well as histories and biographies of the region and its leaders, are still in print today thanks to J. S. Sanders. We no longer accept new manuscript submissions for J. S. Sanders.

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Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
1332 North Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60642
Phone: 312-787-6262
Fax: 312-787-6269
For orders: 800-462-6420

Email: elephant@ivanrdee.com

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