Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world,^{[citation needed]} owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. Villard was founded in 1983.

Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House and is currently a sub-imprint of Ballantine Books, itself an imprint of Random House.^{[citation needed]} It was named after a Stanford White brownstone mansion on Madison Avenue that was the home of Random House for twenty years.

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