Mitch Horowitz is a writer and publisher of many years' experience with a lifelong interest in man’s search for meaning. He is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin in New York and the author of Occult America (Bantam 2009), which The Washington Post Book World called: “Fascinating…a serious, wide-ranging study of all the magical, mystical, and spiritual movements that have arisen and influenced American history in often-surprising ways.” 

A widely known writer and speaker on the history and impact of alternative spirituality, he has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, All Things Considered, Air America Radio, The History Channel, The Montel Williams Show, and Coast to Coast AM. He has written for The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Parabola, the Religion News Service, and the popular weblog BoingBoing.

At Tarcher/Penguin, Horowitz has published some of today’s leading titles in world religion, esoterica, and the metaphysical. He has also published notable works in philosophy, social thought and politics. His recent titles include Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch; 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck; The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders by Jacob Needleman; The Secret Teachings of All Ages: Reader’s Edition by Manly P. Hall; and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein.  

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)