Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of

St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...

, which is a division of

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. From 1986 until April 2020, it published popular trade fiction and nonfiction.

History

The imprint signed David Irving, a scholar, for a Joseph Goebbels biography in 1996 but had to drop the book when it was found out that Irving was a

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for having links to

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, "the literary center of the United States Holocaust-denial movement." In October 1999, St. Martin's Press recalled a Dunne book, ''Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President'', and destroyed them after various incidents about the author, J. H. Hatfield, surfaced. The incidents were that he had served prison time for a car-bombing attempt on his former boss's life and that he included an anonymous accusation about Bush. A St. Martin's executive editor resigned in protest over the publication. In November, Dunne editors stopped attending St. Martin editorial meetings and started their own. In June 2016, PublishersLunch announced that Thomas Dunne Books had been downsized to four employees. In April 2020, St. Martin's Press eliminated the imprint as part of "implementing a job reduction action and hiring freeze" due to economic struggles caused by the

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Authors

* Jesse Slattery '' The Juliet Effect'' Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Slattery, Jesse. The Juliet Effect. 1. Title. PS3569.L.266J85 1987 813'.54 87-16142 ISBN 0-312-01053-2 *

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* J.P. Donleavy *

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and Zoë François *

Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974). That novel and other works, including ''The Hemingway Hoax'' (1991) and '' Forever Peace'' (1997), have wo ...

(''

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'') *

Bobby Knight Robert Montgomery Knight (born October 25, 1940) is an American former basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement, and currently fourth all-t ...

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Paul Beatty Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962) is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his novel '' The Sellout''. It was the first time ...

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and the members of

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* Judd Trichter *

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('' Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In'') *

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* Jincy Willett * David Wong (''

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'') *

Viv Albertine Viviane Katrina Louise Albertine (born 1 December 1954) is an Australian-born British musician, singer, songwriter and writer. She is best known as the guitarist for the punk band the Slits from 1977 until 1982, with whom she recorded two studio ...

* John Hart (author) *

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Macmillan Entertainment

Macmillan Films (MF) was launched by Thomas Dunne Books in October 2010. It produced the docudrama series ''

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'' based on the book ''Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs'', by Charles Falco and Kerrie Droban, which the imprint published in 2013. Macmillan Films was renamed Macmillan Entertainment. As of April 2020, the division's web site listed no staff, products in development, or available properties.MacmillanEntertainment.com. Accessed 2020-04-07.

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