Crown authors[1] include Jean Auel, Max Brooks, George W. Bush, Eitan Bernath,[2] Deepak Chopra, Ann Coulter, Andrew Cuomo,[3] Giada De Laurentiis, Will Ferrell (as fictional character Ron Burgundy), Gillian Flynn, Jim Gaffigan, Ina Garten, Greg Gutfeld, Mindy Kaling, Rachel Maddow, Jillian Michaels, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Theresa Rebeck, Mark Brennan Rosenberg, Judith Rossner, Rebecca Skloot, Suzanne Somers, Martha Stewart, Jonah Goldberg, Michael Jackson and many others.

[4][5] Outlet Book Company began by featuring overstock and remaindered books, but soon moved into reprints of backlist, out-of-print, largely non-fiction titles, then into reprints of bestselling fiction and non-fiction, and eventually into original titles.

[7] Other publishers acquired by Crown include Arcadia House; Howell, Soskin; and Julian Press.

[10] Under the direction of Wartels,[4] Alan Mirken,[11] Joseph Reiner[12] and others, Crown Books became one of the Outlet Book Company's lead imprints for original publishing which included such landmark fiction and non-fiction as Judith Krantz's Princess Daisy, Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear and Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex in its early high-profile years.

Crown Publishing Group had its headquarters at 225 Park Avenue South in Midtown Manhattan,[13][14] occupying 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2) of space.