Atheneum Books

Atheneum Books
Parent companySimon & Schuster
Founded1959
FounderAlfred A. Knopf Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
Publication typesBooks
Fiction genresChildren's literature
ImprintsCaitlyn Dlouhy Books
OwnerKohlberg Kravis Roberts
Official websitesimonandschusterpublishing.com/atheneum/

Atheneum Books is a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Simon & Schuster has owned Atheneum properties since 1994, and it created Atheneum Books for Young Readers as an imprint for children's literature in the 2000s.