Rider is a publishing imprint of Ebury Publishing, a Random House division. The list was started by William Rider & Son in Britain in 1908 when he took over the occult publisher Phillip Wellby. The editorial director of the new list was Ralph Shirley and under his direction, they began to publish titles as varied as the Rider Waite Tarot and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Today the Rider motto is "New Ideas for New Ways of Living" and books and authors on the list reflects this. There are still books on the paranormal, with authors like Raymond Moody and Colin Fry; and spirituality, with books by the Dalai Lama and Jack Kornfield; but there are also books on current and international affairs by authors as diverse as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nobel Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi.

External links

• Official Rider website

Bibliography

• Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
• Jonathan Yardley, States of Mind: A Personal Journey Through the Mid-Atlantic, 1993, ISBN 0394589114