Academy Chicago Publishers
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Academy Chicago Publishers is a trade book publisher founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1975 by Anita and Jordan Miller.

. Founded over 35 years ago on a love of literature, this independent publishing house continues to publish wonderful books, all of which are hand selected by Jordan and Anita.

"... Academy Chicago Limited is a young publishing house that is winning esteem from literary folk across the country ... Anita and Jordan Miller ... publish books dear to their hearts - attractively made, mostly paperbound children's books, feminist books and new editions of hard-to-come-by literary treasures from the past." - New York Times Book Review

Current Titles

  • COUNTY: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital by David Ansell
  • The Dave Store Massacre by Ron Ebest
  • Loves of Yulian by Julian Padowicz
  • Relative Strangers by Frank Cicero Jr.
  • A Theory of Great Men by Daniel Greenstone
  • Too Late for the Festival' by Rhiannon Paine

Selected Past Titles

  • Earl Der Biggers (Charlie Chan
    Charlie Chan
    Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919. Loosely based on Honolulu detective Chang Apana, Biggers conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes, such as villains like Fu Manchu...

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    • The Black Camel
    • Behind that Curtain
    • The Chinese Parrot
    • The House Without a Key
    • Keeper of the Keys
    • Charlie Chan Carries On
  • Leo Bruce
    Leo Bruce
    Leo Bruce is a pseudonym for Rupert Croft-Cooke . Under this name, Bruce wrote several mystery novels. He created two series, one featuring Sergeant Beef, a British police officer, and a second in which Carolus Deene, senior history master at the fictional Queen's School, Newminster, is an amateur...

    • Death with Blue Ribbon
    • Death of the Commmuter
    • Furious Old Women
    • Such is Death
    • Die All, Die Merrily
    • Case for Three Detectives
  • John Cheever
    John Cheever
    John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...

    • Full River and Other Uncollected Stories
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

    • The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle
    • The Lost World
    • Tales for a Winter's Night
    • Four Classic Ghostly Stories
  • Frederick Engels
    • The Condition of the Working Class in England
  • Olga Lengyel
    Olga Lengyel
    Olga Lengyel was a Romanian woman who became a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys.-Life and career:...

    • Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz
  • John Manderino
    • Reason for Leaving
    • Sam and his Brother Len
    • Crying at Movies
    • The Man Who Once Played Catch with Nellie Fox
    • The H-Bomb and the Jesus
  • David Schmahmann
    • Nibble and Kuhn
    • Empire Settings
    • Ivory From Paradise
  • Fay Weldon
    Fay Weldon
    Fay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.-Biography:Weldon was...

    • Down Among the Women
    • The Fat Woman's Joke
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