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Acacia: The Sacred Band

Acacia: The Sacred Band is a 2011 novel by American author David Anthony Durham, published by Doubleday.

Andrew Schally

Nicholas Wade, The Nobel Duel, Garden City, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1981.

Bryan Malessa

His story "Looking Out For Hope" (Voices of the Xiled, Doubleday, 1994) in memory of Raymond Carver was made into a short film directed by Phil Harder and scored by the rock band Low.

Bunchy Carter

Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story, Doubleday, New York, 1992.

Clarence Birdseye

In 2012 the first book-length biography of Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky's Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man was published by Doubleday.

Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

In 1948, Fox obtained the exclusive rights to create a television series called Crusade in Europe, based on the 1948 book, Crusade in Europe written by Dwight D. Eisenhower and published by Doubleday.

Douglas Anthony Cooper

The novel became a surprise bestseller when it was accidentally published in Amazon Kindle format by Doubleday.

Drive: The Story of My Life

Published by Doubleday in 1989 and coauthored with Bob Ryan, the book chronicles Bird's life and career up to the 1988–89 NBA season.

E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

Both Stearns and Maslin were in the employ of A.B.C., known as the "trust," when they purportedly entered into a conspiracy; part of which was to purchase through Doubleday the capital stock of the Stearns Bicycle Agency from A.B.C., which bought it when they acquired the interests of E. C. Stearns & Company.

Elissa Schappell

She was previously a Senior Editor at The Paris Review Schappell has co-edited two anthologies of essays The Friend Who Got Away, published in 2005 by Doubleday and Money Changes Everything, published in 2007 by Doubleday.

Fred Gipson

Hound-Dog Man in 1947 established Gipson's reputation when it became a Doubleday Book-of-the-Month Club selection and sold over 250,000 copies in its first year of publication and later made into a film in 1959.

Fred Wilpon

In 1986, Doubleday president Nelson Doubleday, Jr. sold Doubleday & Co., the owner of his interest in the Mets, to Bertelsmann AG.

Gene Wojciechowski

These works include The Bus: My Life In and Out of a Helmet (Doubleday 2007) with Jerome Bettis; I Love Being the Enemy: A Season on the Court with the NBA’s Best Shooter and Sharpest Tongue (Simon & Schuster 1995) with Reggie Miller; Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way (Hyperion Books 1995) with Bill Walton; and My Life on a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin’ Utes (Hyperion 1999) with Rick Majerus.

George Sessions Perry

Finally, in 1937, The Saturday Evening Post published one of his stories, and soon thereafter Doubleday published his first book, Walls Rise Up, a comic novel about three vagrants living along the Brazos River.

Grumman J2F Duck

Among its passengers was Carlos P. Romulo (diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author) who recounted the flight in his 1942 best-selling book "I Saw the Fall of the Philippines" (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1943, pp. 288–303) for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.

Herb Caen

San Francisco: City on Golden Hills, illustrated by Dong Kingman, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967.

Herbert Breslin

The breakup was followed with the publication of a book by Breslin, along with Anne Midgette, entitled The King & I (Doubleday, 2004), which was seen by many as sensational and overly critical.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief and chairman of Bertelsmann AG's Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, says;

James A. Drake

Two of his biographies, Ponselle: A Singer’s Life (Doubleday & Company), and Richard Tucker: A Biography (E. P. Dutton Company), with forewords by tenor Luciano Pavarotti, were selected as “Books of the Month” by the National Book Clubs of America.

Jennie Erdal

Originally brought out by Canongate Books, it was published by Doubleday in Canada and the US, by Cossee in Holland and by Aufbau in Germany.

John C. Farrar

Then in 1929 he was a founder of the house of Farrar & Rinehart, with Stanley M. Rinehart Jr. and Frederick R. Rinehart, sons of Mary Roberts Rinehart who had also been at Doubleday Doran.

Lee Hoffman

Hoffman won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for her novel The Valdez Horses (Doubleday, 1967).

Leonardo's Swans

Leonardo’s Swans is an international bestseller by Karen Essex, published by Doubleday in 2006.

Margaret Wise Brown

-- list of works doesn't help, doesn't identify Here and Now or date Noisy; do these even belong here in the account? --> From 1944 to 1946, Doubleday published three picture books written by Brown under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard.

Memoirs of Hecate County

In July, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice lodged a complaint, and 130 copies were seized from four bookstores owned by Doubleday and from the New York Public Library.

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

The volumes matched Grosset & Dunlap's other Doubleday Book Club publication, Young Library.

Neltje Blanchan

Nellie's grandson Nelson Doubleday Jr. was president of the Doubleday publishing company from 1978–1986, when he sold it to the Bertelsmann group from Germany.

Neltje Doubleday Kings

Neltje Doubleday left New York and moved to Banner, Wyoming, where in 1966 she bought a 440-acre ranch on Lower Piney Creek.

Paul Barril

Yaroslav Trofimov The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda, (Doubleday, New York, 2007) ISBN 978-0-385-51925-0

Paul Bindrim

In 1971 he sued the novelist Gwen Davis Mitchel and her publisher, Doubleday, alleging that a depiction of a fictional pychotherapist in her novel Touching was a veiled depiction of him and defamed him and his profession.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (New York: Doubleday, 1957) is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys.

Random ballot

A related system was hypothesized by Isaac Asimov in his short story "Franchise" (1955: reprinted in Earth Is Room Enough, Doubleday, 1957), where a single voter is chosen to decide each election.

Shutterbug Follies

The book was released as a weekly online and newspaper series, and was published in its entirety by Doubleday in 2002.

Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London

Doubleday had previously produced a statue of Holmes for the town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls from which the detective fell to his death in the story "The Final Problem".

Stephen Ward Doubleday

His daughter Angelica Cushman Doubleday Tropp and her husband Simeon became the principal financial backers of Wilhelm Reich during his years in America.

The Complete Peerage

This version was effectively replaced by a new and enlarged edition between 1910 and 1959 edited successively by Vicary Gibbs (Cokayne's nephew), H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Lord Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea.

The Most Famous Man in America

The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher is a 2006 biography of the 19th-century American minister Henry Ward Beecher, written by Debby Applegate and published by Doubleday.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two is a two-volume anthology edited by Ben Bova and published in the U.S. by Doubleday in 1973, distinguished as volumes "Two A" and "Two B".

William Henry Page

In 1899 G.A. Gomme and H. Arthur Doubleday launched the Victoria County History through Archibald Constable & Co, in which Doubleday was a partner.


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