The company published dozens of other celebrity authors, including Jean Shepherd, Thor Heyerdahl, Irving Stone, Leon Uris, Kurt Vonnegut, Irwin Shaw, Stephen King and Gay Talese. Mr. Sargent led the company's acquisition in 1976 of Dell Publishing, one...

YORK A former Doubleday publishing company CEO who worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen King has died in New York City. John Turner Sargent Sr. was 87. Sargent was the CEO of Doubleday in the 1960s and '70s. He helped recruit...

OK, so I can read the first… say, 3 books and then give it up? I got this eReader and am already running out of things to read. I got through the Hunger Games books in a week. I got this eReader and am already running out of things to read May I...

Probably being Sicilian, my breed has suffered a great deal also, so we have that in common. The Jews are brothers." The NYC-born, Emmy award-winning actor appeared in more than 70 feature films and in hundreds of television programs -- including...

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The NY-based company publishes 12 to 15 new e-books a year, but its niche is digitizing backlist titles by such authors as Michael Chabon, Leon Uris and William Styron, the Forward notes. Open Road produces short films about its authors. The living...