Founded in 1986 by Cecile Engel and Lori Milken, Delphinium Books is committed to publishing original, important voices, be it fiction or non-fiction, in contemporary society. Our purpose is to recognize excellence in writing, and thereby bring it to public attention. The publishing house's first effort, Delphinium Blossoms, an anthology featuring a broad array of authors, from E.L. Doctorow, Grace Paley and Russell Banks to numerous first-time writers, established Delphinium's reputation as a home for quality writing.

Major book reviews and support from booksellers and librarians have contributed to Delphinium's growth and distinction. Its unique distribution relationship with Harper Collins allows for editorial autonomy paired with the resources of one of the globe's leading trade publishing houses. Delphinium's hardcover list has attracted the attention of the major paperback publishing houses. Sales of paperback rights to Ballantine, Penguin and Houghton Mifflin attest to the industry's interest in the writing of such authors as Barbara Lazear Ascher, Helen Yglesias, Joann Kobin and the internationally renowned novelist, Francesca Duranti. Delphinium is especially proud of the critical acclaim accorded to Rosina Lippi's Homestead, winner of the 1999 PEN/Hemingway award for best first fiction.

With its mandate to provide a rich venue for exemplary writers of our generation, Delphinium proudly offers its readers the best in quality literature.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt is the Editorial Director of Delphinium Books. You may contact him via the form below.


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OUR FULL CATALOGUE
A complete list of all books
published by Delphinium Books.




FEATURED BOOKS

THE PIG COMES TO DINNER
By Joseph Caldwell
“This charming, at times hilarious, tale serves as a satisfying story as well as a quiet commentary on the sympathetic relationship between imagination and compassion.”
– LIBRARY JOURNAL

ABOVE THE HOUSES
By Susan Engberg
“...nine gorgeously crafted stories....”
- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

THE PIG DID IT
By Joseph Caldwell
"Caldwell has achieved the impossible with poetic ascents to the peaks of hilarious prose. A lovelorn American, a loony aunt, eccentric neighbors, and a corpse who insists on surfacing at every opportunity inhabit this very funny novel."
– Malachy McCourt

MALE OF THE SPECIES
By Alex Mindt
"A haunting and stunning chronicle of our country and of our people."
– Binnie Kirshenbaum

LITTLE STAR OF BELA LUA
By Luana Monteiro
"lyrical debut... vibrant pages."
– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

MERCY
By Alissa York
"Alissa York is perched on the edge of literary big time with the launch of her debut novel. An intelligent and largely riveting story... spectacular."
– THE WINNIPEG FREE PRESS

VIRGINIA LOVERS
By Michael Parker
Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Hello Down There and Towns Without Rivers

WOMAN MADE OF SAND
By Joann Kobin
"...funny, beautiful, brutal and generous." – Carolyn Cooke

ALBERT, HIMSELF
By Jeff W. Bens
"This is a vivid and enthralling debut."
– Margot Livesey

HOMESTEAD
By Rosina Lippi
PEN/Hemingway Award Winner

WHAT'S COME OVER YOU?
By Marian Thurm
"Her stories are acoustically perfect."
– New York Times Book Review

LEFT-HANDED DREAMS
By Francesca Duranti
Winner of the Rappallo Prize

MODERN ART
By Evelyn Toynton
"...a wise, adroit novel, resplendent with shimmering, incisive writing.... A mature accomplished debut."
– Edward Hoagland

THE GIRLS
By Helen Yglesias
... a poignant and very funny story about the last American taboos, old age and dying.

THE HOUSE ON MOON LAKE
By Francesca Duranti
"The House on Moon Lake has won the Bagutta Prize, the Martina Franca Prize, and The City of Milan Prize. I wish there were a prize that we, too, could give it."
– Sebastian Faulks, The Independent (London)

THE HALLELUJAH SIDE
By Rhoda Huffey
"Every reader will be rooting for Roxy to open her throat and sing her own unique soul in her amazing 'porkchop' voice."
– Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife

THE TATTOOED SOLDIER
By Hector Tobar
"[This] tensely drawn novel does what the political novel has always done at its best. It makes you look at your world with a harder, fiercer and colder eye, and ask yourself, the endless, easily shrugged off question: "What must I do?"
– Fort Worth Star Telegram