History

Over its sixty year history, Vantage Press has published more than 20,000 books from authors around the world.

Vantage Press, Inc. was incorporated in 1949 – the year William Faulkner became the fifth American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the year in which Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell passed away. Vantage’s founding mission remains the same as today: to enable new or unknown authors to publish books alongside those put out by commercial publishers.

Vantage authors have included:

Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College and mentor to
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina (The Autobiography of Eva Perón)

Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (Science,
Ethics and Politics)

Gene Hirshhorn LePere, writing about her father, art collector
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, for whom the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum
was named

Lew A. Hochberg, M.D., whose authoritative Thoracic Surgery Before the
20th Century went into multiple editions

Gavril Popov, former Mayor of Moscow

Emory Holloway, Pulitzer Prize winner, for whom Vantage published
Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman

Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, who published five
books with Vantage.

Vantage has published the works of many doctors, medical and academic, and books by a plethora of college presidents. The all-time Vantage bestseller, Marley Cole's Jehovah's Witnesses: A New World Society, made national lists and sold more than 100,000 copies.

Vantage has been the subject as well as the publisher of books: Alice McDermott, Pulitzer Prize nominee novelist, drew on her work as a young assistant at Vantage in her 1982 novel A Bigamist's Daughter.

Vantage’s direct advertising has been a feature of its approach since its inception. It continues to be a regular advertiser in periodicals including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and U.S. News & World Report. In the current media environment, Vantage is concentrating on the internet for most of its outreach, although our new print ads will continue to appear.

Vantage’s history has not been entirely without controversy. A lawsuit stemming from 1971 accused Vantage of inadequate marketing; the suit was settled in 1990 after a judgment against Vantage and its then-owners, and the company clarified its marketing promises after that. That Vantage amended its ways can be seen in its current “A+” Better Business Bureau rating, showing complaints from only two out of thousands of clients over the last five years.

Current management purchased Vantage Press, Inc. in 2009 with the intention of building on Vantage’s long history while improving client rapport, adding new services, and operating with the utmost integrity. We invite you to contact us to discuss our publishing program but also to bring to our attention any issues you perceive as we work to ensure that Vantage Press remains the best home for fledgling and seasoned authors alike.

"Being a new author, the experiences I encountered along the way with travel, television and radio interviews, and book signings, were phenomenal! I thank Vantage Press for giving me the opportunity to become an author!"

D. M. M. Anuskiewicz