Nelson Doubleday resigned as president, but continued as chairman of the board until his death on January 11, 1949.

In 1978 Nelson Doubleday, Jr. became president of the company.

Talese, the imprint's publisher and editorial director, is a senior vice president of Doubleday.

Nelson Doubleday, Jr. was named chairman of the board while minority shareholder Fred Wilpon took the role of club president.

In 1986, after years of changes in the publishing business, his grandson Nelson Doubleday, Jr. as president sold the Doubleday Company to the German group Bertelsmann.

Nelson Doubleday followed his father into the publishing business and served for years as president of the company, to be followed in 1978 by his own son, Nelson Doubleday, Jr.

* John Turner Sargent, former president and CEO of the Doubleday and Company publishing house

From 1900 to 1913, Page was partner and vice president of Doubleday, Page & Co., as well as editor, of World's Work magazine.

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

His son Nelson Doubleday, Jr. followed him into it, taking part in expansion and serving as president from 1978-1986.

* Lawyer and publisher Douglas Black ( Class of 1916 ), president of Doubleday and Company, 1946 – 1963 ;

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.

Nelson Doubleday, Jr. ( born July 20, 1933 ) was the president of Doubleday ( 1978-1986 ).

He became president of Doubleday in 1978.

Nelson Doubleday, 1975.

* 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher ( d. 1934 )

* January 11 – Nelson Doubleday, American publisher ( b. 1889 )

Publisher Nelson Doubleday is a seasonal resident.

* Frank Nelson Doubleday

The trilogy was released 1978 in omnibus edition titled The Dragonriders of Pern by Nelson Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club.

The Harper Hall trilogy was released 1984 in omnibus edition titled The Harper Hall of Pern by Nelson Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club.

The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908 – 1958, New York: Doubleday, 1996.

* January 30-Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher

The 3 volumes were reprinted in omnibus version The Complete Book of Swords, ( SFBC / Nelson Doubleday Jan. 1985 ), and later as The First Swords, ( Tor Feb. 1999 )

Volumes 1, 2 & 3 were reprinted in omnibus version The Lost Swords: The First Triad, ( SFBC / Nelson Doubleday Sep. 1988 ); Volumes 4, 5 & 6 were reprinted in omnibus version The Lost Swords: The Second Triad, ( Tor / SFBC May 1991 ); Volumes 7 & 8 were reprinted in omnibus version The Lost Swords: Endgame, ( SFBC / GuildAmerica Books June 1994 )

The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday, who had formed a partnership with the magazine publisher Samuel McClure.

In 1922, the founder's son, Nelson Doubleday, joined the firm.

* Nelson Doubleday, 1922-1946

* Nelson Doubleday, Jr., 1978-1986 and sale to Bertelsmann.

* Garden City Publishing Co., originally established as a separate firm by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City's books were primarily reprints of books first offered by Doubleday, printed from the original plates but on less expensive paper.

* 1974: Aurora, Berkley / Putnam ( 3x ), Curtis, Dodd, Mead and Company, Doubleday, Franklin Watts, John Knox Press, Julian Messner, Lerner SF Library ( 8x ), Pocket Books, Rand McNally, Thomas Nelson, Trident

Alfred Abraham Knopf, Sr. ( September 12, 1892 – August 11, 1984 ) was an American publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc .. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and ( of the previous generation ) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt.

A hardback edition was issued in 1969 by the Science Fiction Book Club ( Nelson Doubleday, Inc .).

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.

* James Reston, Jr. " Dogs of God ," New York: Doubleday, p. 18.

* Woods, Shirley E. Jr. Ottawa: The Capital of Canada, Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980.

His son Nelson Doubleday, son-in-law John Turner Sargent, Sr. and grandson Nelson Doubleday, Jr. all worked in the company and led it through different periods.

After a 1970 edition by Doubleday & Company had already been printed, Nelson Doubleday, Jr. personally cancelled the publication and had the copies destroyed, fearing legal action from some of the celebrities depicted in the book.

* Woods, Shirley E. Jr. Ottawa: The Capital of Canada, Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980.

* Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century, Confessions of an Art Addict, ( Foreword by Gore Vidal, ( Introduction by Alfred H. Barr Jr .), ANCHOR BOOKS, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Universe Books 1979, ISBN 0-385-17109-9

* Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century, Confessions of an Art Addict, ( Foreword by Gore Vidal, ( Introduction by Alfred H. Barr Jr .), ANCHOR BOOKS, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Universe Books 1979, ISBN 0-385-17109-9

They had a son Nelson Doubleday, Jr. ( born 1933 ) and a daughter Neltje ( born in 1934 ), named for Nelson's mother.

Both Sargent and Nelson Doubleday, Jr., worked for Doubleday.

* James Reston, Jr. " Dogs of God ," New York: Doubleday, p. 18.

Hellhound on His Trail ( Doubleday 2010 ) is about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the largest manhunt in American history to capture James Earl Ray, who pled guilty in 1969 and served the rest of his life in prison.