Plume

Penguin Plume

Overview

At Plume, we are dedicated to publishing powerful nonfiction voices in the genres of pop culture, humor, memoir, as well as health and wellness books that both entertain and inform. Plume’s notable successes include New York Times bestsellers Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood; Sona Movsesian’s The World’s Worst Assistant; Amber Share’s Subpar Parks; Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes’s Obitchuary; Hannah Shaw and Andrew Marttila’s Cats of the World; as well as Lyn Slater’s How to Be Old, Elizabeth Cline’s The Conscious Closet, and Anaïs Mitchell’s Working on a Song. Plume also publishes books about activism and those that celebrate diverse cultural experiences, from Martin Duberman’s Stonewall to the plays of August Wilson, including Fences, as well as Bernice McFadden’s Sugar and Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus.

Forthcoming Plume titles include Dr. Zachary Rubin’s All About Allergies; Google Data Editor Simon Rogers’s What We Ask Google; journalist Ashley Cullins’s Your Favorite Scary Movie; and TikToker and historian Sam Kelly’s Human History on Drugs.

Meet the Team