- John Turner Sargent
John Turner Sargent, Sr. is the former president and
CEO of theDoubleday and Company publishing house from 1961 to 1978.Sargent, Sr. is the son of
Charles S. Sargent (a partner inHornblower & Weeks , asecurities concern in New York), and a graduate ofSt. Mark's School and attendedHarvard College . On or around May 17, 1953, [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0813FC3F5B157A93C5A8178ED85F478585F9 "h*ELT[?] DOUBLEDAY; Late Publisher's Daughter Is Bride of John T. Sargent in Christ Episcopal Church"] , "The New York Times", p. 91, May 17, 1953] he marriedNeltje Doubleday (granddaughter of the lateFrank N. Doubleday , who founded the company in 1897), who he divorced sometime before December 21, 1985, when he marriedElizabeth Nichols Kelly . He is also atrustee of theNew York Public Library , theNew York Zoological Society and theAmerican Academy in Rome . [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504EED6153BF931A15751C1A963948260 "John T. Sargent Weds Elizabeth Kelly"] , "The New York Times ", December 22, 1985]Also in 1985, around September 17, he became chairman of the executive committee at Doubleday, succeeded by
Nelson Doubleday, Jr. . [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7D71639F934A2575AC0A963948260 "New Doubleday President"] , "The New York Times", September 17, 1985]In 2006, the "John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize" literary prize was established in his honor by "The
Mercantile Library Center for Fiction" in New York. [ [http://www.mercantilelibrary.org/awards/sargent.php The Mercantile Library • The John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize ] ]John Turner Sargent, Jr., his son, is a graduate of
Stanford University , was a business associate in the publishing division of Doubleday & Company, and marriedConstance Lane Murray September 21, 1985.Sargent Jr. is the current CEO of
Macmillan Publishers , the American operations ofHoltzbrinck Publishing Group and a longtime member of theGraham Windham Board of Directors and former Chairman of the Board. [ [http://www.graham-windham.org/dynContentFolder/Summer05.pdf "2005 Gala - Bright Lights, Big City: Graham Windham Hosts Literacy at the Lighthouse"] , "Graham Windham Newsletter", vol. xxxi issue no. 3, Summer 2005 ( [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:CfziWEwxQLoJ:www.graham-windham.org/dynContentFolder/Summer05.pdf Google cached HTML version] )] [ [http://www.graham-windham.org/AboutUs/BoardManagement/ Board & Management] , Graham Windham website]References
* [http://www.publishingtrends.com/copy/06/0604/0604BookView.html "Book View - People", "Duly Noted"] , "
Publishing Trends ", April 2006
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7DA1F39F934A25750C0A963948260 "Miss Murray to Marry John Sargent Jr."] , "The New York Times", March 17, 1985
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