Mitch Horowitz is a writer and publisher of many years' experience with a lifelong interest in mans search for meaning. He is vice-president and editor-in-chief at Tarcher/Penguin in New York and the author of Occult America (Bantam), which The Washington Post Book World called: Fascinatinga serious, wide-ranging study of all the magical, mystical, and spiritual movements that have arisen and influenced American history in often-surprising ways. The book received the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence. He is currently writing a history of the positive-thinking movement, forthcoming from Crown.

Horowitz has discussed the history and impact of alternative spirituality on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, All Things Considered, The History Channel, Big Think, The Montel Williams Show, Coast to Coast AM, and other national media. He has recently written on alternative spiritual topics for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, The Huffington Post, and BoingBoing. Horowitz has spoken at The Esalen Institute, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, The San Francisco Writers Conference, 92YTribeca, The Association for Research and Enlightenment (Virginia Beach, VA), The Rhine Research Center (Durham, NC), and at arts spaces including Observatory (Gowanus, Brooklyn) and Petes Candy Store (Williamsburg, Brooklyn). Time Out magazine has called his Occult New York Walking Tours a cant-miss event featuring seldom-told stories of New Yorks mystical history.

At Tarcher/Penguin, Horowitz has published some of todays leading titles in world religion, esoterica, and the metaphysical, including the work of David Lynch, Jacob Needleman, Whitley Strieber, Jacques Vallee, Richard Smoley, Gary Lachman, Michael Muhammad Knight, and Daniel Pinchbeck. His list has exposed many new readers to classic works of the metaphysical tradition through lines like Tarcher Cornerstone Editions and Tarcher Success Classics, and through the republication and redesign of a wide range of esoteric landmarks, such as the popular Readers Edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. His list also encompasses several recent political bestsellers, such as The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein and Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.

The philosopher and religious scholar Jacob Needleman has written: In over thirty years of writing books and having dealt with numerous editors from many major publishers, I have never met an editor with the spiritual intelligence and intellectual sensitivity to the meaning of religion that Mr. Horowitz has shown...His pioneering work in publishing can serve as a model for others who until now have been somewhat marginalized by what has been termed the secular establishment.

Horowitz lives with his wife and two sons in New York City. He can be reached at:

mitch.horowitz@us.penguingroup.com
Tarcher/Penguin
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
212-366-2512

"I remember my murshid said, ‘There are many forms of friendship. But the friendship formed in the search of truth, in the love of God, is greater than any other in the world.’ ”

– Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufi)