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unusual facts about E. P. Dutton


Eaton's Corrasable Bond

Writer Peter David, who worked as an editor's assistant at the E. P. Dutton imprint Elsevier/Nelson before becoming a professional writer, once related finding a submission written on erasable bond, which made the print difficult to read.


Gabrielle Kurlander

In partnership with the retired prima ballerina Susan Jaffe, Kurlander has also established the ASP’s Artist Committee whose members include the actor Charles S. Dutton, the actor/comedienne Fran Drescher, the choreographer/dancer Bill T. Jones, the dancer/choreographer Desmond Richardson, the theatre director Robert Wilson and the actor/singer Donna Murphy.

Isabel Bishop

In the mid-1940s, E. P. Dutton commissioned Bishop to illustrate a new edition of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

A Broadway revival opened on February 6, 2003 at the Royale Theatre, featuring Charles S. Dutton as Levee and Whoopi Goldberg as Ma.

Marty Papazian

Papazian made his directorial debut with the 2012 film Least Among Saints, in which he stars opposite Laura San Giacomo and Charles S. Dutton.

National Black Arts Festival

People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.

Rehabilitation Through the Arts

RTA held its first New York City Benefit performance From Sing Sing to Broadway – An Evening Without Walls in June 2006 at Playwrights Horizons Theatre, with special guest performance by Charles Dutton.


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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.