Pelican Publishing Company is a book publisher based in Gretna

Gretna, Louisiana

The city of Gretna is the parish seat of Jefferson Parish, in the US state of Louisiana. Gretna is on the west bank of the Mississippi River, just east and across the river from uptown New Orleans. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, a suburb of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

. It was formed in 1926 and in its time has produced 1500 titles, most of which relate to Louisiana and Southern culture, cuisine, and history. The company is under the ownership of President Milburn Calhoun, his wife, Vice-president Nancy Calhoun, and brother, former Executive Editor James Calhoun.

Significant titles

In its eighty year history, Pelican Publishing Company has produced regionally successful titles including the following:

• Finn McCool's Football Club
  Finn McCool's Football Club
  Finn McCool's Football Club - The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead is the title of a nonfiction memoir book written by Belfast author Stephen Rea and released in February 2009 by Pelican Publishing Company....
  
  - The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead by Stephen Rea, released February 2009. This tells the story of the drinkers at an Irish pub in New Orleans and what happens to them before, during and after Hurricane Katrina.

• Arnaud's
  Arnaud's
  Arnaud's is a well known restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Along with Galatoire's, Antoine's, and Broussard's, Arnaud's is one of the four classic Creole New Orleans restaurants....
  
   Restaurant Cookbook: Legendary Creole Cuisine by Kit Wohl
  Kit Wohl
  Kit Wohl is a prolific cookbook author, photographer, graphics designer and artist. She also has worked with chefs, restaurants and hotels across the United States as the CEO of Wohl & Company, a New Orleans-based advertising, public relations and marketing firm...
  
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• New Orleans Classic Cookbook Series featuring Desserts, Appetizers, Seafood and Gumbos & Soups, also by Kit Wohl
  Kit Wohl
  Kit Wohl is a prolific cookbook author, photographer, graphics designer and artist. She also has worked with chefs, restaurants and hotels across the United States as the CEO of Wohl & Company, a New Orleans-based advertising, public relations and marketing firm...
  
  

• The Cajun Night Before Christmas by James Rice: A parody
  Parody
  A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
  
   of the popular Night Before Christmas poem in which Santa Claus visits Cajun
  Cajun
  Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...
  
   Louisiana.

• Louisiana Almanac
  Louisiana Almanac
  The Louisiana Almanac is a regularly updated reference work, published by the Gretna, Louisiana based Pelican Publishing Company. New editions are produced typically within a two to four year timespan, although, since the first publication in 1949, the book has been updated from durations between...
  
  (series): A resource of statistical data and historical information related to the State of Louisiana.

• The Maverick Guide (series): A series of travel guides.

• Clovis Crawfish, a children's series by Mary Alice Fontenot

• Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles by William Faulkner
  William Faulkner
  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
  
  : The first trade publication written by William Faulkner
  William Faulkner
  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
  
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• The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy: A controversial historical perspective that argues that the Confederacy had the right to secede from the Union
  Union (American Civil War)
  During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty free states and five border slave states. It was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the...
  
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• The Cavalry Battle that Saved the Union: Custer vs. Stuart at Gettysburg, Paul D. Walker, Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA, 2002

• See You at the Top, the first book by motivational business speaker Zig Ziglar
  Zig Ziglar
  Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar is an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.-Biography:Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County, Alabama, to parents John Silas Ziglar and Viola Ziglar...