Frank Nelson Doubleday: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Charles T. Whitefield
Born	January 8, 1862 • New York City • New York
Died	January 30, 1934 (aged 72) • Florida

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Stephen Day

American printer

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Isaiah Thomas

American journalist

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Alexander MacMillan

Scottish publisher

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Daniel MacMillan

Scottish publisher

William Blackwood, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Allan; in a private collection

William Blackwood

Scottish publisher

Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American publisher

Author Larry McMurtry sits in a chair before shelves tightly packed with books in his bookstore.

Larry McMurtry

American author

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American poet

Walter Hines Page, detail of a portrait by P.A. de Laszlo; in the collection of the Department of Archives and History, North Carolina

Walter Hines Page

American author and diplomat

Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach

American bookstore owner

Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf

American publisher

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Daniel Berkeley Updike

American printer and publisher

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Harry Crosby

American poet and publisher

James Fields, engraving by H.W. Smith

James T. Fields

American author and publisher

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Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf

German publisher

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Henry Richard Vizetelly

British-Italian publisher

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William Morris

British artist and author

William Caxton

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.

Robert Maxwell

Czechoslovak-born British publisher

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Henri II Estienne

French scholar and printer