"He planted all the trees himself," said his girlfriend, Nancy Evans.

Nancy Evans, former president and publisher of Doubleday, will be the editor in chief.

"Under Nancy Evans, we aren't going to be tripping over endless details and be plagued by poor communications."

He married Nancy Evans, whom he'd met while they were both students at the University of Iowa, in 1952; they had six children.

Nancy Evans was forced to resign from the presidency of Doubleday.

The part was eventually created by Nancy Evans.

Just nine months ago, he showed his manuscript to Nancy Evans, then president of Doubleday, and was politely turned down.

Meanwhile, at Doubleday, its new president, Nancy Evans, began an expansion program of her own, a strategy that led to losses in the late 1980's.

She would share the part with Nancy Evans.

"It was absolutely flat," said Nancy Evans, the president of Doubleday.