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Doubleday (publisher)

Index Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States. [1]

96 relations: Alex Haley, Alfred A. Knopf, Alistair MacLean, Anchor, Andre Agassi, Arthur Hailey, B. Dalton, Bantam Books, Barnes & Noble, Bertelsmann, Bill Bryson, Bill Strickland, Book League of America, Book of the Month Club, Bookspan, Carl Jung, Christopher Reich, Chuck Palahniuk, Classic book, Colson Whitehead, Dallas, Dan Brown, Daphne du Maurier, Dell Publishing, Dolores Hitchens, Dolphin, Douglas Black (publisher), Evelyn Berckman, Felipe Alfau, Frank Nelson Doubleday, Fred Wilpon, Fu Manchu, Garden City, New York, George H. Doran Company, Graeme Gibson, Hanya Yanagihara, Herman Melville, Immanuel Velikovsky, Imprint (trade name), Isaac Asimov, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline Wilson, John Barth, John Grisham, John Turner Sargent, John Turner Sargent Sr., Jon Krakauer, Jonathan Lethem, José Antonio Villarreal, Joseph Conrad, ..., Judith Rossner, Kirby Page, Laura Z. Hobson, Leslie Charteris, List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom, Long Island, Margaret Atwood, Mark Haddon, McGraw-Hill Education, Michael A. O'Donnell, Michael Jackson, Michio Kaku, Nelson Doubleday, Nelson Doubleday Jr., New York City, New York Mets, Noah Hawley, P. G. Wodehouse, Paperback, Pat Conroy, Paul Shaffer, Penguin Random House, Permabooks, Peter Mayle, Printer's mark, Random House, Ray Bradbury, Raymond E. Feist, Reynal & Hitchcock, Rudyard Kipling, S. S. McClure, Sax Rohmer, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, The Crime Club, The Day's Work, The Saint (Simon Templar), Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Una Lucy Silberrad, United States, Vera Pavlova, W. Somerset Maugham, Wallace Stegner, Walter Hines Page, William Faulkner, William H. Whyte. Expand index (46 more) »

Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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Alistair MacLean

Alistair Stuart MacLean (Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.

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Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.

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Andre Agassi

Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970) is an American retired professional tennis player and former world No. 1 who was one of the sport's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.

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Arthur Hailey

Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 – November 24, 2004) was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries.

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B. Dalton

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Bantam Books

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann is a German multinational corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Bill Bryson

William McGuire Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics.

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Bill Strickland

William E. "Bill" Strickland (born August 25, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a community leader, author, and the President and CEO of the non-profit Manchester Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh.

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Book League of America

The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club.

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Book of the Month Club

The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five new hardcover books each month to its members.

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Bookspan

Bookspan LLC is a New York-based online book seller, founded in 2000.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

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Christopher Reich

Christopher Reich is an American author.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction.

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Classic book

A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, for example through an imprimatur such as being listed in a list of great books, or through a reader's personal opinion.

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Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller novels, most notably the Robert Langdon stories: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and ''Origin'' (2017).

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.

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Dell Publishing

Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000, two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about the movies, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day).

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Dolores Hitchens

Julia Clara Catherine Maria Dolores Robins Norton Birk Olsen Hitchens (December 25, 1907 in San Antonio, Texas – August 1, 1973 in Orange County, California),Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nev.), 8 August 1973, p. 31, col.

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Dolphin

Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.

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Douglas Black (publisher)

Douglas McCrae Black (July 25, 1895 – May 15, 1977) was an American lawyer and publishing house executive, president of Doubleday and Company from 1946–1963 and president of the American Book Publishers Council.

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Evelyn Berckman

Evelyn Domenica Berckman (18 October 1900 – 18 September 1978) was an American author noted for her detective and Gothic horror novels.

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Felipe Alfau

Felipe Alfau (1902–1999) was a Spanish-born American novelist and poet.

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Frank Nelson Doubleday

Frank Nelson Doubleday (January 8, 1862 – January 30, 1934), known to friends and family as “Effendi”, founded the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897, which later operated under other names.

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Fred Wilpon

Fred Wilpon (born November 22, 1936) is an American real estate developer, baseball executive and the majority owner of the New York Mets.

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Fu Manchu

Dr.

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Garden City, New York

Garden City is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, in the town of Hempstead.

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George H. Doran Company

George H. Doran Company (1908–1927) was an American book publishing company established by George Henry Doran.

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Graeme Gibson

Graeme C. Gibson, (born 9 August 1934) is a Canadian novelist.

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Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara (born September 20, 1974) is an American novelist, editor, and travel writer.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky (p; 17 November 1979) was a Russian independent scholar best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950.

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Imprint (trade name)

An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (born Bouvier; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist who writes for children's literature.

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John Barth

John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American writer, best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).

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John Turner Sargent

John Turner Sargent Jr. (born c. 1956) is an American book publisher; he is CEO of Macmillan Publishers USA, the American operations of Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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John Turner Sargent Sr.

John Turner Sargent Sr. (June 26, 1924 – February 5, 2012) was president and CEO of the Doubleday and Company publishing house from 1963 to 1978, taking over from the previous president, Douglas Black.

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing.

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Allen Lethem (LEE-thum, born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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José Antonio Villarreal

José Antonio Villarreal (30 July 1924 – 13 January 2010) was a Chicano novelist.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Judith Rossner

Judith Rossner (March 31, 1935 – August 9, 2005) was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) and August (1983).

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Kirby Page

Kirby Page (1890–1957) was an American Disciples of Christ minister, an author, and a peace activist.

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Laura Z. Hobson

Laura Zametkin Hobson (June 19, 1900 – February 28, 1986) was an American writer, best known for her novels Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Consenting Adult (1975).

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Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 12 May 1907 – 15 April 1993), was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom

The United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (known formally in the United Kingdom as Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St James's) is the official representative of the President and the Government of the United States of America to the Queen and Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.

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Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003).

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McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is a learning science company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Michael A. O'Donnell

Michael A. O'Donnell (born June 17, 1956, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is a best-selling author, researcher, and international lecturer with a Ph.D. from Kansas State University and is best known for his Adolescent Wellness Research Project, co-conducted with family strengths scholar Nick Stinnett, Ph.D., a professor with the University of Alabama.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku (born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science.

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Nelson Doubleday

Nelson Doubleday (June 16, 1889 – January 11, 1949) was a U.S. book publisher and president of Doubleday Company from 1922–1946.

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Nelson Doubleday Jr.

Nelson Doubleday Jr. (July 20, 1933 – June 17, 2015) was the owner next-to-last President and CEO of Doubleday and Company (1978-1985, succeeded by James R. McLaughlin, 1985-1986) before its sale to Bertelsmann A.G. in 1986.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Mets

The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Noah Hawley

Noah Hawley (born) is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author, best known for creating and writing the FX television series Fargo (2014–present) and Legion (2017–present).

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Pat Conroy

Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs.

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Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian and multi-instrumentalist who served as David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015).

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House (PRH) is an American multinational publishing company formed in 2013 from the merger of Random House (owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) and Penguin Group (owned by British publishing company Pearson PLC).

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Permabooks

Permabooks was a paperback division of Doubleday, established by Doubleday in 1948.

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Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle (14 June 1939 – 18 January 2018) was a British author noted for his memoirs of life in Provence, France.

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Printer's mark

A printer's mark, device, emblem or insignia was a symbol used as a trademark by early printers starting in the 15th century.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Raymond E. Feist

Raymond E. Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III; 1945) is an American fantasy fiction author who wrote The Riftwar Cycle, a series of novels and short stories.

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Reynal & Hitchcock

Reynal and Hitchcock was a publishing company in New York.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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S. S. McClure

Samuel Sidney McClure (February 17, 1857– March 21, 1949) was an Irish-American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative, or muckraking, journalism.

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Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Crime Club

The Crime Club was an imprint of the Doubleday publishing company, which later spawned a 1946-47 anthology radio series.

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The Day's Work

The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.

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The Saint (Simon Templar)

Simon Templar is a fictional character known as The Saint.

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III (September 13, 1887 – July 12, 1944), known as Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,While it was President Theodore Roosevelt who was legally named Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the President's fame made it simpler to call his son "Junior".

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Una Lucy Silberrad

Una Lucy Silberrad (–) was a British author.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vera Pavlova

Vera Anatolyevna Pavlova (Вера Анатольевна Павлова; born 1963 in Moscow) is a Russian poet whose work has been published in The New Yorker.

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.

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Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers".

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Walter Hines Page

Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat.

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.

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William H. Whyte

William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (October 1, 1917 – January 12, 1999) was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)

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