group random house founded 1897 ; 119 years ago 1897 founder frank nelson doubleday and samuel mcclure country of origin united states headquarters location new york city publication types books official website doubleday.knopfdoubleday.com doubleday is an american publishing company founded as doubleday & mcclure company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the united states . it published the work of mostly u.s. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores . doubleday is as of 2009 merged with knopf publishing group to form the knopf doubleday publishing group . contents 1 history 2 presidents 3 notable editors 4 notable authors 5 notable employees 6 imprints 7 bookstores 8 references 9 external links history edit the firm was founded as doubleday & mcclure company in 1897 by frank nelson doubleday 1 who had formed a partnership with the magazine publisher samuel mcclure . one of their first bestsellers was the day s work by rudyard kipling . other authors published by the company in its early years include w. somerset maugham and joseph conrad . theodore roosevelt jr. later served as a vice president of the company . in 1900 the company became doubleday page & company when walter hines page joined as a new partner . in 1922 the founder s son nelson doubleday joined the firm . in 1910 doubleday page and co. moved its operations which include a train station to garden city . 2 the doubleday company purchased much of the land on the west side of franklin avenue and estate homes were built for many of its executives on fourth street . in 1916 company co founder and garden city resident walter hines page was named ambassador to great britain . in 1927 doubleday merged with the george h. doran company creating doubleday doran then the largest publishing business in the english speaking world . citation needed in 1946 the company became doubleday and company . nelson doubleday jr. resigned as president but continued as chairman of the board until his death on january 11 1949 . douglas black took over and was president from 1946 to 1963 . 3 by 1947 doubleday was the largest publisher in the us with annual sales of over 30 million books . citation needed doubleday s son in law john sargent was president and ceo from 1963 to 1978 ; nelson doubleday jr. succeeded john sargent as president and ceo from 1978 to 1985 and james r. mclaughlin then succeeded doubleday in both roles doubleday becoming chairman of the board . in 1980 the company bought the new york mets baseball team . it defeated the boston red sox to win the world series in 1986 in a classic 7 game contest . in 1986 the firm was a fully integrated international communications company doing trade publishing mass market paperback publishing book clubs and book manufacturing together with ventures in broadcasting and advertising . the company had offices in london and paris and wholly owned subsidiaries in canada australia and new zealand with joint ventures in the uk and the netherlands . doubleday sold the publishing company to bertelsmann in 1986 4 5 and teamed up with minority owner fred wilpon to buy the mets in his own name . in 1988 portions of the firm became part of the bantam doubleday dell publishing group which in turn became a division of random house in 1998 . in late 2008 and early 2009 the doubleday imprint was merged with knopf publishing group to form the knopf doubleday publishing group . 6 presidents edit frank doubleday founder 1897 1922 nelson doubleday 1922 1946 douglas black 1946 1963 john turner sargent sr. 1963 1978 nelson doubleday jr. 1978 1983 james r. mclaughlin 1983 1986 4 notable editors edit jacqueline kennedy onassis associate editor 1978 1982 senior editor 1982 1994 notable authors edit andre agassi felipe alfau isaac asimov margaret atwood john barth ray bradbury dan brown bill bryson john burdett a. s. byatt stephen l. carter pat conroy daphne du maurier james ellroy raymond e. feist graeme gibson john grisham mark haddon alex haley noah hawley dolores hitchens michael jackson carl jung michio kaku a. l. kennedy stephen king rudyard kipling jon krakauer jonathan lethem alistair maclean peter mayle henning mankell herman melville haruki murakami vladimir nabokov michael a. o donnell kirby page chuck palahniuk vera pavlova terry pratchett christopher reich anne rice david shields david allen sibley alexander mccall smith bill strickland paul shaffer una lucy silberrad wallace stegner anne tyler tom vanderbilt immanuel velikovsky jose antonio villarreal jacqueline wilson p. g. wodehouse william h. whyte hanya yanagihara notable employees edit william faulkner worked part time at the doubleday bookstore in new york city in 1921 . 7 imprints edit the following are imprints that exist or have existed under doubleday anchor books produced quality paperbacks for bookstores ; named for the anchor that along with a dolphin forms doubleday s colophon ; now part of the knopf publishing group s vintage anchor unit blakiston co. medical and scientific books . sold in 1947 to mcgraw hill blue ribbon books purchased in 1939 from reynal & hitchcock book league of america contemporary and world classic literature purchased in 1936 the crime club active through much of the 20th century publishing mystery and detective novels most notably the fu manchu series by sax rohmer and the saint series by leslie charteris 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 . it was named for the village on new york s long island in which doubleday was long headquartered until 1986 and which still houses bookspan the direct marketer of general interest and specialty book clubs run by doubleday direct and book of the month club holdings . image books catholic books still a doubleday unit as part of doubleday religious publishing nan a. talese doubleday a literary imprint established in 1990 . talese the imprint s publisher and editorial director is a senior vice president of doubleday . permabooks paperback division established in 1948 rimington & hooper high quality limited editions triangle books purchased in 1939 from reynal & hitchcock ; sold inexpensive books through chain stores zenith books aimed at african american youths bookstores edit doubleday bookstores were purchased by barnes & noble in 1990 and operated by b. dalton . 8 references edit history . randomhouse.com . newportvintagebooks.com http diglib.princeton.edu ead getead eadid c0858 & kw a b mcdowell edwin december 18 1986 . german firm completes acquisition of doubleday . new york times . mcdowell edwin 1986 10 01 . penguin agrees to buy new american library . the new york times . issn 0362 4331 . retrieved 2016 04 12 . 1 shakeups hit random house other publishers fargnoli a. nicholas ; golay michael 2009 . critical companion to william faulkner . infobase publishing . doubleday bookstores merged into b. dalton external links edit doubleday official site collection of doubleday and co. drafts proofs and other material re at ease stories i tell to friends and the white house years by dwight d. eisenhower dwight d. eisenhower presidential library v t e penguin random house random house usa crown crown broadway harmony hogarth three rivers ten speed watson guptill knopf doubleday knopf doubleday everyman s library us pantheon schocken vintage random house ballantine bantam dell del rey dial modern library spectra villard children s beginner books golden information books on tape fodor s living language the princeton review prima games uk cornerstone hutchinson random house william heinemann ebury bbc books ebury del rey fodor s rider virgin books 90 % transworld bantam doubleday vintage publishing the bodley head chatto & windus harvill secker jonathan cape vintage canada mcclelland & stewart douglas gibson books tundra books new canadian library other companhia das letras 45 % penguin random house grupo editorial alfaguara penguin group uk dorling kindersley hamish hamilton ladybird penguin penguin classics puffin rough guides viking warne us alpha author solutions authorhouse iuniverse trafford xlibris dutton penguin putnam riverhead sentinel tarcher viking berkley publishing group ace berkley new american library jove plume roc children s dial young readers dutton children s firebird g. p. putnam s sons grosset & dunlap philomel price stern sloan puffin warne parents bertelsmann pearson plc v t e principal owners of the new york mets franchise joan whitney payson charles shipman payson doubleday & co. nelson doubleday & fred wilpon fred wilpon authority control worldcat identities viaf 294994700 lccn n79107731 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title doubleday publisher & oldid 737777553 categories book publishing companies based in new yorkpublishing companies based in new york citydoubleday familyrandom housepublishing companies established in 18971897 establishments in new yorkdefunct publishing companies of the united stateshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from february 2015wikipedia articles with viaf identifierswikipedia articles with lccn identifiers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages e tinadeutschespa olfran aisfrysk italiano norsk bokm lpolskiportugu srom n suomi edit links this page was last modified on 5 september 2016 at 00 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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