W. W. Norton & Company is an American publishing company based in New York City . Established in 1923, it has been owned wholly by its employees since the early 1960s. The company is known for its Norton Anthologies (particularly The Norton Anthology of English Literature ) and its texts in the Norton Critical Editions series, both of which are frequently assigned in university literature courses.
7-463: The roots of the company date to 1923, when William Warder Norton founded the firm with his wife Mary Dows Herter Norton , and became its first president. In the 1960s, Mary Norton offered most of her stock to its leading editors and managers. Storer D. Lunt took over in 1945 after Norton's death, and was succeeded by George Brockway (1957–1976), Donald S. Lamm (1976–1994), W. Drake McFeely (1994–2017), and Julia A. Reidhead (2017–present). Reidhead
14-602: A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities . William Warder Norton William Warder Norton (September 17, 1891 – November 7, 1945) was a publisher and co-founder of W. W. Norton & Company . He grew up in Columbus, Ohio , moved to New York City and started an import-export business, met and married Margaret Dows Herter , known as Polly or Mary. In 1923, they began publishing lectures delivered at
21-658: A selection of contextual documents and critical essays along with an edited text. Annotations to the text are provided as footnotes, rather than as endnotes. The States and the Nation series was published in celebration of the United States Bicentennial . It comprised 51 volumes, one for each state and the District of Columbia. The series was administered by the American Association for State and Local History via
28-629: The People's Institute , the adult education division of New York City's Cooper Union . William and Margaret had a daughter, Anne Aston Warder Norton (1928-1977). The Nortons soon expanded their program beyond the Institute, acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad. This is the beginning of W. W. Norton & Company. Starting in 1942 he was very active with the Council on Books in Wartime . It
35-777: The company turned 100 years old. Norton Anthologies collect canonical works from various literatures; perhaps the best known anthology in the series is the Norton Anthology of English Literature , which, as of 2018, is in its 10th edition. Norton Anthologies offer general headnotes on each author, a general introduction to each period of literature, and annotations for every anthologized text. Like Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics , Norton Critical Editions provide reprints of classic literature and in some cases, classic non-fiction works. However, unlike most critical editions, all Norton Critical Editions are sourcebooks that provide
42-417: Was that council, which was a consortium of publishers, that agreed to an equitable distribution of paper and binding materials, all these scarce materials that went into the manufacture of books. He died at 54, just four months after V-E Day . This article about an American businessperson born in the 1890s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biography of an American publisher
49-569: Was vice president and publishing director of Norton's College division and a former editor of the Norton Anthologies. Imprints of W. W. Norton include Norton Professional Books (professional works in mental health, well-being, architecture and design, and education), Countryman Press (lifestyle and instructional books, including healthy-living, cookbooks, and hiking guides), Liveright (20th century classics and new works), and Norton Young Readers (books for preschoolers to young adults). In 2023,
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