12 Facts About Lyle Stuart

Lyle Stuart worked as a newsman for years before launching his publishing firm, Lyle Stuart, Incorporated.

Lyle Stuart was fond of gambling, with baccarat and craps being his games of choice.

Lyle Stuart boasted, in Casino Gambling for the Winner, of having won $166,505 in ten consecutive visits to Las Vegas.

Lyle Stuart had first gained national notoriety by taking on the powerful newspaper columnist Walter Winchell in a series of scathing magazine articles, collected in book form in 1953.

In 1965, in partnership with Loujon Press, Lyle Stuart published Charles Bukowski's second important poetry collection, Crucifix in a Deathhand, though the firm was better known for publishing books such as The Sensuous Woman and Naked Came the Stranger.

Lyle Stuart was sold in 1988 to developer Steven Schragis, who started Carol Publishing.

In 1997, Lyle Stuart's publishing house Barricade Books reissued The Turner Diaries, a novel thought to have been the inspiration behind Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the Murrah building.

Lyle Stuart was a strong advocate of freedom of the press, and believed it was important for people to be able to read and make up their own minds.

Lyle Stuart described himself as an "atheist of Jewish ancestry".

Later Lyle Stuart married Carole Livingston Lyle Stuart in 1982 and they were married until his death.

Lyle Stuart, especially in his last years, was a resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Lyle Stuart died from a heart attack at a hospital in Englewood, New Jersey, on June 24,2006, at age 83.