Lena Dunham to Launch Imprint at Random House

Lenny, the feminist newsletter co-founded by author and "Girls" creator Lena Dunham, is becoming Lenny the publishing imprint.

Random House announced Wednesday that Dunham and Jenni Kooner will oversee a line of books featuring "exciting, emerging voices" in fiction and nonfiction. The imprint will launch in 2017, with a "select" number of titles each year.

Random House published Dunham's best-selling "Not That Kind of Girl" in 2014.

Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator, writer and star of the HBO series Girls (2012-present), for which she has received numerous Emmy award nominations and two Golden Globe awards. Dunham's work on Girls also led her to become the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Comedy Series in 2013. In 2014, Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" . Along with friend and Girls producer Jennifer Konner, in 2015 Dunham created the publication, Lenny Letter, which is supported by Hearst Corporation advertising.

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