Douglas McCrae Black (July 25, 1895 – May 15, 1977) was an American lawyer and publishing house executive, president of Doubleday and Company from 1946 to 1963 and president of the American Book Publishers Council.
[4] By 1947, Doubleday was the largest publisher in the US, with annual sales of over 30 million books.
The "Douglas M. Black Dwight D. Eisenhower Collection", including over 200 letters and notes exchanged, is at St. Lawrence University.
[5] Black was a keen advocate of freedom of speech and lost a $60,000 court case defending Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County, which was banned.
Black was a trustee of Columbia University, and a director of the Council on Library Resources.