Gerald Gladney, the Doubleday editor who likes sitcoms, says his two children are "an important distraction, but they don't help me unwind."

"Doubleday editors as well as those here worked with Fadiman on the list of people who are in 'Testament,' " she said.

His Doubleday editor, Larry Ashmead, proposed that Asimov write a similar book about the American Booksellers Convention.

He took it to the Doubleday editor the next morning, who read it and wrote Bradbury a check for seven hundred and fifty dollars.

In the winter of 1955-56, after a consultation with his Doubleday editor, Bradbury deferred publication of a novel based on Green Town, the pseudonym for his hometown.

"We could make our operating expenses on just one of his books," said one Doubleday editor.

Ms. Brown, a former Doubleday editor, has a client list that is mostly black.

Don't Doubleday editors oversee their own dust jackets?

In early 1995, the authors' agent, Ellen Levine, went to lunch with a Doubleday senior editor, who expressed interest in signing the authors for additional books about relationships.

The book was acquired at auction in January by Jacqueline Onassis, a Doubleday editor, and there are now 75,000 copies in print.