Frank Nelson Doubleday

Frank Nelson Doubleday ( born January 8, 1862 in Brooklyn, New York, † January 30, 1934 ) was an American publisher.

Doubleday was the son of William Edwards Doubleday Hatter and Ellen M. Dickinson. He attended a public elementary school in Brooklyn, and then for two or three years, the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After the commercial failure of his father, he began in 1877 in the publishing house Charles Scribner's Sons in New York and worked there for those responsible for " Scribner 's Magazine ", later to those responsible for the subscription of publishing high. In this role, he began to reward customers for the completion of an annual subscription of the magazine with books, originally a series of novels by Rudyard Kipling. On November 30th, 1895 Doubleday Kipling visited for the first time in Vermont.

In 1897 he left Scribner's and founded initially with Samuel McClure as a partner, Doubleday & McClure Company. McClure was the editor of McClure 's Magazine, a monthly magazine with political and literary content. Thus, it appeared - at the same time as syndicated in other newspapers - by Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Herminie T. Kavanagh, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Antony Hope and Mark Twain texts, especially as well as novels in installments.

While in collaboration with McClure occurred and tensions increased and the business relationship was dissolved on December 31, 1899, to Doubleday and Rudyard Kipling remained a lifelong and was Doubleday Kipling - now to the initials FND reference - " Effendi " called.

January 1, 1900 marked the beginning of cooperation between Doubleday and Walter Hines Page, a social reformer and the editor of " The Atlantic Monthly " and thus their new joint publishing " Doubleday, Page and Company ." Your cooperation is expected to continue until 1913; Page eventually was U.S. ambassador in London during the First World War.

1921 Doubleday acquired the control of the British publisher William Heinemann, 1927, George H. Doran Company; the thus formed publishing house was renamed " Doubleday, Doran and Company " - and at that time was the largest publisher of the English-speaking world.

1886 married Doubleday Neltje DeGraff. From this marriage was born the son of Nelson and a daughter. In addition, the couple adopted a nephew Doubleday named Felix.