Kensington Publishing Corp. is a New York-based publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius and known as “America’s Independent Publisher.” It remains a multi-generational family business, with Steven Zacharius succeeding his father as President and CEO, and Adam Zacharius as General Manager. As the foremost independent commercial publishing house in the United States providing hardcover, trade paperback, mass market, and digital releases, Kensington publishes "the books that America wants to read".