Background
Calhoun, Milburn was born on January 15, 1930 in West Monroe, Louisiana, United States. Son of Darrell L. and Mary Elizabeth (Crowell) Calhoun.
physician publishing executive rare book dealer
Calhoun, Milburn was born on January 15, 1930 in West Monroe, Louisiana, United States. Son of Darrell L. and Mary Elizabeth (Crowell) Calhoun.
In 1947, he graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe. In 1949, he completed the curriculum at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as "Northeast Junior College". In 1951, he completed his pre-medical education at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
In 1955, he graduated from medical school at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans.
He interned at New Orleans Charity Hospital. Thereafter, for nine years, he maintained a medical practice in Buras in Plaquemines Parish east of New Orleans. He then practiced from 1965 until his retirement in 1997 at the Nicholson, Baehr, Calhoun Family Clinic in Marrero, a census-designated place in Jefferson Parish.
He was chief of staff at West Jefferson Hospital in New Orleans.
Calhoun founded Bayou Books, an out-of-print dealership specializing in Louisiana and southern subjects. In 1961, he opened a bookstore under that same name in Gretna.
In March 1970, he and family members acquired Pelican Publishing Company and relocated the company to Gretna, where they operated the enterprise for more than forty years, having peaked with some 2,500 titles in print. The sales doubled each year during the first decade of Calhoun’s leadership.
Pelican books are sold in every state and in nearly all English-speaking countries worldwide.
One of its most successful books was See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar"s motivational bestseller, still in print but initially rejected by some thirty other publishers. Calhoun also developed the classic "Cajun Night Before Christmas series, which today includes twenty-nine titles. Pelican publishes cookbooks, architecture titles, a series on editorial cartoons, and works on the American Civil War, the American South, and African American topics.
Calhoun said that he operated the company on the principle of publishing otherwise rejected books for which there is nevertheless a willing market for such titles.
The sales doubled each year during the first decade of Calhoun’s leadership. Today, Pelican is the largest independent trade book publisher in the South.
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Fellow American Academy Family Practice. Member American Marketing Association, Louisiana Academy Family Practice, Louisiana Association Business and Industry, New Orleans Chamber of Commerce.
Married Nancy Kathryn Harris, July 14, 1956. Children: Kathleen, David.