HarperCollins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers with headquarters in New York. The company is part of News America Publishing Group, a division of News Corporation. The house of Mark Twain, the Brontė sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper. The worldwide book group, which was formed following News Corporation's acquisition of the British publisher William Collins in January 1990, has significant publishing interests in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia.

Today, HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, history, psychology, sociology, business, children's books, cookbooks, general interest, religious and spiritual books. Harper classics such as Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, On Writing Well by William Zinsser, and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn are used in high school and college classrooms across the country.