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27-571: Jen Bergstrom is the Senior Vice President and Publisher. Simon & Schuster created the Gallery Books imprint in 2009 to unite the editorial teams of Pocket Books and Simon Spotlight Entertainment (or SSE), and Gallery Books launched its first list in 2010. Louise Burke was named executive vice-president and publisher while Jennifer Bergstrom, who had been publisher of SSE, would be editor-in-chief. Gallery's initial mission

54-557: A British consul in Afghanistan , who disappeared under odd circumstances. Later in the evening, Rutherford reveals to the neurologist that, after the disappearance, he discovered Conway in a French mission hospital in Chung-Kiang (probably Chongqing ), China , suffering from amnesia . Conway recovered his memory, told Rutherford his story (which Rutherford recorded in a manuscript), and then slipped away again. Rutherford gives

81-596: A Simon & Schuster partner, and James M. Jacobson bought Pocket Books for $ 5 million. Simon & Schuster acquired Pocket in 1966. Phyllis E. Grann who would later become the first woman CEO of a major publishing firm was promoted to run Pocket Books under then CEO Richard E. Snyder . Grann left for Putnam in 1976. In 1981, Dr. Benjamin Spock 's Baby and Child Care was listed as their top seller, having sold 28 million copies at that time and having been acquired in 1946. In 1989, The Dieter by Susan Sussman became

108-748: A new line of graphic books called Gallery 13. The imprint has published the highest quality visual storytelling by creators including Stephen King , Stan Lee , and James O'Barr . In August 2017, Jennifer Bergstrom became senior vice president and publisher following the retirement of Louise Burke. In March 2019, the all-inclusive fantasy and science fiction imprint Saga Press moved from Simon & Schuster's Children's Publishing Group to Gallery. Saga publishes bestselling and esteemed authors including Charlaine Harris , Stephen Graham Jones , Rebecca Roanhorse , and Ken Liu . Gallery Books – Gallery Publishing Group's core, general-interest imprint – has expanded its mission and scope over time and now publishes books in

135-531: A party directed by Chang, a postulant at the lamasery who speaks English. The lamasery has modern conveniences, like central heating, bathtubs from Akron, Ohio , a large library, a grand piano , a harpsichord , and food from the fertile valley below. Towering above is Karakal, literally translated as "Blue Moon," a mountain more than 28,000 feet high. Mallinson is keen to hire porters and leave, but Chang politely puts him off. The others eventually decide they are content to stay: Miss Brinklow because she wants to teach

162-682: A reporter's question about the origin of the Doolittle Raid by saying it had been launched from " Shangri-La ". The true details of the raid were revealed to the public a year later. This inspired the naming of the Essex -class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CV-38) , commissioned in 1944. Lost Horizon ' s concept of Shangri-La has gone on to influence other quasi-Asian mystical locations in fiction including Marvel Comics ' K'un L'un and DC Comics ' Nanda Parbat . The book has been adapted for film three times: The book served as

189-467: A wide array of categories, including commercial fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. Simon & Schuster has published thousands of books from thousands of authors. This list represents some of the more notable authors at Gallery Books (those who are culturally significant or have had several bestsellers). Pocket Books Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. Pocket Books produced

216-402: Is also the division that currently owns publication rights to the well-known work of James O'Barr , The Crow . Lost Horizon Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton . The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon , in 1937 by director Frank Capra and a lavish musical remake in 1973 by producer Ross Hunter with music by Burt Bacharach . It

243-490: Is given an audience with the High Lama, an unheard-of honor. He learns that the lamasery was constructed in its present form by a Catholic monk named Perrault from Luxembourg , in the early eighteenth century. The lamasery has since then been joined by others who have found their way into the valley. Once they have done so, their aging slows; if they then leave the valley, they age quickly and die. Conway guesses correctly that

270-607: Is hijacked and flown instead over the mountains to Tibet . After a crash landing, the pilot dies, but not before telling the four (in Chinese, which only Conway speaks) to seek shelter at the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La. The location is unclear, but Conway believes the plane has "progressed far beyond the western range of the Himalayas " towards the less known heights of the Kuen-Lun mountain range. The four are taken there by

297-457: Is the origin of Shangri-La , a fictional utopian lamasery located high in the mountains of Tibet . The prologue and epilogue are narrated by a neurologist. This neurologist and a novelist friend, Rutherford, are given dinner at Tempelhof , Berlin , by their old school-friend Wyland, a secretary at the British embassy. A chance remark by a passing airman brings up the topic of Hugh Conway,

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324-528: The 1960s, Pocket Books alone, over the course of more than 40 printings, had sold several million copies of Lost Horizon , helping to make it one of the most popular novels of the 20th Century. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt named the Presidential hideaway in Maryland , now called Camp David , after Shangri-La. In 1942, to ensure the safety of returning U.S. forces, Roosevelt answered

351-478: The American market. Priced at 25 cents and featuring the logo of Gertrude the kangaroo (named after the mother-in-law of the artist, Frank Lieberman), Pocket Books' editorial policy of reprints of light literature, popular non-fiction, and mysteries was coordinated with its strategy of selling books outside the traditional distribution channels. The small format size, 4.25" by 6.5" (10.8 cm by 16.5 cm) and

378-401: The High Lama is Perrault, now 250 years old. In a later audience, the High Lama reveals that he is finally dying, and that he wants Conway to lead the lamasery. The High Lama then dies. Conway contemplates the events. Hours after the High Lama dies, Conway is outside still pondering the events while in the moonlight. Mallinson then grabs him by the arm and tells Conway he has arranged to leave

405-457: The bestseller list, and by the end of the first week sold out of its initial 100,000 copy run. By the end of the year Pocket Books had sold more than 1.5 million units. Robert de Graff continued to refine his selections with movie tie-ins and greater emphasis on mystery novels, particularly those of Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner . Pocket and its imitators thrived during World War II because material shortages worked to their advantage. During

432-543: The fact that the books were glued rather than stitched, were cost-cutting innovations. The first ten numbered Pocket Book titles published in May 1939 with a print run of about 10,000 copies each: This list includes seven novels, the most recent being six years old ( Lost Horizons , 1933), two classics (Shakespeare and Wuthering Heights , both out of copyright), one mystery novel, one book of poetry ( Enough Rope ), and one self-help book. The edition of Wuthering Heights hit

459-844: The first mass-market , pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch , and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and had one million books in print by the following year. Pocket Books was founded by Richard L. Simon , M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster and Leon Shimkin , partners of Simon & Schuster, along with Robert Fair de Graff . Penguin's success inspired entrepreneur Robert F. de Graff, who partnered with publishers Simon & Schuster to bring it to

486-613: The first hardcover published by Pocket Books. Pocket was for many years known for publishing works of popular fiction based on movies or TV series, such as the Star Trek franchise (owned by former corporate siblings CBS Television Studios and Paramount Pictures ). Since first obtaining the Star Trek license from Bantam Books in 1979 (with a publication of the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture ), Pocket has published hundreds of original and adapted works based upon

513-723: The franchise and continues to publish a new novel every month. Beginning in 2017 with novels based on Star Trek: Discovery , the Star Trek novel lines have gradually moved to Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books line. Pocket also previously published novels based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The author credited for one of the Buffy products is Gertrude Pocket, a reference to the company's kangaroo logo. (The Buffy novels are now published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment , another division of Simon & Schuster .) Pocket Books

540-598: The neurologist his manuscript, which becomes the heart of the novel. In May 1931, during the British Raj in India, the 80 white residents of Baskul are being evacuated to Peshawar due to revolution. In the aeroplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are: Conway, the British consul, aged 37; Charles Mallinson, his young vice-consul; an American, Henry D. Barnard; and a British missionary, Miss Roberta Brinklow. The plane

567-453: The people a sense of sin; Barnard because he is really Chalmers Bryant (wanted by the police for stock fraud) and because he is keen to develop the gold mines in the valley; and Conway because the contemplative scholarly life suits him. A seemingly young Manchu woman, Lo-Tsen, is another postulant at the lamasery. She does not speak English, but plays the harpsichord. Mallinson falls in love with her, as does Conway, though more languidly. Conway

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594-531: The valley with porters and Lo-Tsen. Barnard and Brinklow have decided to stay. The porters and Lo-Tsen are waiting for him five kilometers outside the valley, but he cannot traverse the dangerous route alone, so he convinces Conway to go along and assist him. Conway is caught, divided between the two worlds. Ultimately, because of his love for the boy, he decides to join Mallinson. This ends Rutherford's manuscript. The last time Rutherford saw Conway, it appeared he

621-513: The war, Pocket sued Avon Books for copyright infringement: among other issues, a New York state court found Pocket did not have an exclusive right to the pocket-sized format (both Pocket and Avon published paperback editions of Leslie Charteris ' The Saint mystery series, among others). In 1944, the founding owners sold the company to Marshall Field III , owner of the Chicago Sun newspaper. Following Field's death in 1957, Leon Shimkin,

648-438: Was Lo-Tsen, aged drastically by her departure from Shangri-La. The narrator wonders whether Conway can find his way back to his lost paradise. The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips was published in 1934. Lost Horizon became a huge popular success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1 , making it the first "mass-market" paperback . By

675-681: Was founded in 1939 and was instrumental in introducing the pocket-size book to the American market, remains active and continues to publish mass-market editions. In 2015 the Gallery Publishing Group launched literary fiction imprint Scout Press with Ruth Ware 's debut, In a Dark, Dark Wood . The imprint has continued to publish all of New York Times bestselling author Ware's books, along with fiction by authors including Candice Carty-Williams , Kristen Roupenian , Andrew MacDonald, and Iain Reid . In July 2016, Gallery Books announced

702-441: Was preparing to make his way back to Shangri-La. Rutherford completes his account by telling the neurologist that he attempted to track Conway and verify some of his claims of Shangri-La. He found the Chung-Kiang doctor who had treated Conway. The doctor said Conway had been brought in by a Chinese woman, who was ill and died soon after. She was old, the doctor had told Rutherford, "Most old of anyone I have ever seen," implying that it

729-539: Was to focus on women's fiction, pop culture and entertainment.  Simon & Schuster announced a reorganization in October 2012 that created four divisions, with the Gallery Publishing Group as one. When the reorganization was complete, Gallery Publishing Group consisted of Gallery Books, Pocket Books, Pocket Star, and Karen Hunter Books. In the years since, Pocket Star and Karen Hunter Books have been disbanded, while new imprints have been created. Pocket Books, which

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