Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus
Parent companyPenguin Random House
StatusAcquired
Founded1855 (1855)
FounderJohn Camden Hotten, Andrew Chatto, William Edward Windus
SuccessorVintage Books
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon, England
Official websitepenguin.co.uk/chatto-windus

Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten. Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business partner Andrew Chatto and poet William Edward Windus. The company was purchased by Random House in 1987 and is now a sub-imprint of Vintage Books within the Penguin UK division.