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==Publisher== Calhoun's persistent hobby was collecting rare books. He 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 Jefferson Parish. In March 1970, he and family members acquired '''Pelican Publishing Company''', which had been founded in 1926 in New Orleans. They relocated the company to Gretna, where they operated the enterprise for more than forty years, having peaked with some 2,500 titles in print. Pelican books are sold in every state and in nearly all English-speaking countries throughout the world. One of its most successful books is ''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 those 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.<ref name=pelican>{{cite web|url=http://neworleanslocal.com/pelican-publishing-company-publisher-and-owner-passes/|title="Pelican Publishing Company Publisher and Owner Passes", January 9, 2012|publisher=neworleanslocal.com|accessdate=May 19, 2012}}</ref>

==Publisher==  

 

Calhoun's persistent hobby was collecting rare books. He 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 Jefferson Parish. In March 1970, he and family members acquired '''Pelican Publishing Company''', which had been founded in 1926 in New Orleans. They relocated the company to Gretna, where they operated the enterprise for more than forty years, having peaked with some 2,500 titles in print. Pelican books are sold in every state and in nearly all English-speaking countries throughout the world. One of its most successful books is ''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 those 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.<ref name=pelican>{{cite web|url=http://neworleanslocal.com/pelican-publishing-company-publisher-and-owner-passes/|title="Pelican Publishing Company Publisher and Owner Passes", January 9, 2012|publisher=neworleanslocal.com|accessdate=May 19, 2012}}</ref>

==Philanthrophy and legacy==

==Philanthrophy and legacy==