Lyle Stuart
Lyle Stuart | |
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| Born | Lionel Simon August 11, 1922 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | June 24, 2006 (aged 83) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Publisher, author |
| Organization(s) | Lyle Stuart Inc., Barricade Books |
| Spouses |
Carole Livingston (m. 1982) |
| Children | Rory Stuart |
Lyle Stuart (born Lionel Simon; August 11, 1922 – June 24, 2006) was an American author and independent publisher of controversial books.[1] He worked as a newsman for years before launching his publishing firm, Lyle Stuart, Incorporated.
A former part-owner of the original
Career
The Walter Winchell feud
Stuart had first gained national notoriety by taking on the powerful newspaper columnist
In 1951, he launched a monthly tabloid named Exposé (name later changed to The Independent) designed to publish those stories and articles that others would not have dared publish because they might have offended subscribers or advertisers. Contributors included
EC Comics
In the early 1950s, he was the business manager of the EC Comics line published by Bill Gaines, a close friend.[2]
In 1956, with $8,000 of the money he collected from libel actions against Walter Winchell, Confidential,
Lyle Stuart, Inc.
The publishing firm for which Stuart was best known, Lyle Stuart, Inc., was founded in 1955 with the proceeds of a lawsuit settlement. In 1965, in partnership with Loujon Press, Stuart published Charles Bukowski's second important poetry collection, Crucifix in a Deathhand, though the firm was better known for publishing books such as The Sensuous Woman and Naked Came the Stranger.
In the early 1980s, Lyle Stuart Inc. made a deal with UK publishers Target Books/W H Allen for US distribution of the paperback novelizations of the TV series Doctor Who, coinciding with the increasing popularity of the show on US public broadcasting.
The company was sold in 1988 to developer Steven Schragis, who started Carol Publishing.
Barricade Books
In 1997, Stuart's publishing house Barricade Books reissued The Turner Diaries, a novel thought to have been the inspiration behind Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Murrah building. He was a strong advocate of freedom of the press, and believed it was important for people to be able to read and make up their own minds. (In the introduction he wrote to his reissue of The Turner Diaries, he made clear how strongly he opposed the viewpoint expressed in the book.)[5]
Also in the 1990s, casino mogul
Personal life
Stuart was born in Manhattan on August 11, 1922.[6] He described himself as an "atheist of Jewish ancestry".[7] Stuart's first wife, Mary Louise Stuart, died in 1969. They are the parents of jazz guitarist Rory Stuart. Later Stuart married Carole Livingston Stuart in 1982 and they were married until his death.[8][1]
Stuart, especially in his last years, was a resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey.[1] He died from a heart attack at a hospital in Englewood, New Jersey, on June 24, 2006, at age 83.[6]
Selected works, as author or publisher
- God Wears a Bow Tie (1950)
- Inside Western Union (1950)
- The Secret Life of Walter Winchell (1953)
- Inside The FBI (1967)
- The Rich and the Super-Rich(1968)
- Naked Came the Stranger (1969)
- The Sensuous Woman (1969)
- The Anarchist Cookbook (1970)
- The Sensuous Man (1971)
- The MAD World of William M. Gaines (1972), Library of Congress Card No. 72-9178
- Jackie Oh! (1978)
- Casino Gambling for the Winner (1978), ISBN 978-0-8184-0267-8
- The Prostitute Murders: The People Vs. Richard Cottingham (1983)
- Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain (1984)
- L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?(1987)
- ISBN 0-8184-0422-1
- Winning at Casino Gambling (1994), ISBN 978-1-56980-012-6
- Lyle Stuart on Baccarat (1997), ISBN 0818407174
References
- ^ Washington Post. Retrieved August 19, 2006.
- ^ Diehl, Digby. Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives. St. Martin's, 1996.
- ^ "'Gutsiest' Publisher". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. December 20, 1988. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
- ^ Kelly, Keith J. (March 29, 2000). "VULTURES CLAIM CAROL PUBLISHING". New York Post. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
- ^ Weeks, Linton (April 24, 1996). "Publisher to market racist Turner Diaries". Washington Post. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
- ^ a b Ramirez, Anthony. "Lyle Stuart, Publisher of Renegade Titles, Dies at 83", The New York Times, June 26, 2006.
- ^ McLellan, Dennis (June 28, 2006). "Lyle Stuart, 83; Published 'Jackie Oh!,' 'Inside the FBI' and Other Sensational Books". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
- ^ Coleman, Loren (June 26, 2006). "Lyle Stuart, Frank Edwards' Publisher, Dies on June 24th". cryptomundo.com. Retrieved August 19, 2006.
External links
- Lyle Stuart's Open letter in The New York Times 1988-01-03
- Publishers Weekly on Nevada Supreme Court verdict 2001-10-08
- Finding aid to Lyle Stuart papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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