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9 unusual facts about Grosset & Dunlap


Bronc Burnett

Grosset & Dunlap reissued the entire series with some changes in the order of the books, and with both dust jackets and full color cover illustrations.

Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968.

Chip Hilton

The Chip Hilton series was published between 1948 and 1965 by Grosset & Dunlap, with Bee's last manuscript, Fiery Fullback, published in 2002.

Hank Zipzer

Hank Zipzer: The World's Greatest Underachiever (formally Hank Zipzer: The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever in books 1-3 and Hank Zipzer: The World's Best Underachiever in book four) is a series of children's books by actor Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, published by Grosset & Dunlap.

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

In 1979, after a court battle between the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Grosset & Dunlap, the original publishers (in hardback) of the first fifty-six Nancy Drew titles, publication rights to new stories were granted to Simon & Schuster.

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

Thus, the original fifty-six American Grosset & Dunlap-published titles become the first fifty UK titles, with #57-78 being published as #51-72.

Russell H. Tandy

When Stratemeyer approached Grosset & Dunlap with his concept for Nancy Drew in 1930, he submitted dust jacket art by both Tandy and Ernest Townsend for the publishing house's consideration.

We Were There

The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 1955 and 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap.


Advanced Base Force

The earliest scholars and missionaries of the Navy War College were Dion Williams, Eli K. Cole, John H. Russell, and Robert H. Dunlap, all who pioneered the advanced base force concept since the very beginning.

Bay Springs, Mississippi

Bay Springs was the site of one of six Sunbeam plants in Mississippi; when it closed, as a result of Albert J. Dunlap's downsizing of the company, 300 people lost their jobs.

Cinq-Mars-la-Pile

Monument in honour of Robert H. Dunlap, General U.S. Marine who was killed in May 1931 while trying to rescue a woman in a landslide in the village.

Egalitarianism

For example Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. says that United States Air Force culture includes an egalitarianism bred from officers as warriors who work with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or onboard crew of their aircraft.

Footprints under the Window

Footprints Under The Window is Volume 12 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.

Giants Unleashed

Giants Unleashed is an anthology of science fiction short stories compiled and edited, by Groff Conklin, and published simultaneously in the United States and Canada in 1965 by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc..

Groff Conklin

During that period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, although the first title in the series (Henry Kuttner's Fury) was that story's first book publication.

James R. Dunlap

From 2001-2003, he served as the Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the U.S. State Department where he focused on economic issues and environmental conservation.

Johnny Rocco

Johnny Rocco is a 1958 American black-and-white crime film produced by Scott R. Dunlap and directed by Paul Landres for Allied Artists, and starring Richard Eyer, Stephen McNally, and Coleen Gray.

Robert Dunlap

Robert H. Dunlap (1879–1931), United States Marine Corps brigadier general

Space Cadet

The novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

The Curse of Capistrano

After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation, The Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name by Grosset & Dunlap.

University of Virginia School of Medicine

The current dean of the School of Medicine is pulmonologist Nancy E. Dunlap.

William R. Dunlap

His paintings, sculpture and constructions are included in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mobil Corporation, Riggs Bank, IBM Corporation, Federal Express, The Equitable Collection, Rogers Ogden Collection, Arkansas Art Center, the United States State Department, and United States Embassies throughout the world.


see also

Walt Disney Treasures: Wave Six

In the late 1950s, Disney contracted with the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Grosset & Dunlap to produce two Hardy Boys TV serials, starring Tim Considine and Tommy Kirk.