W. W. Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding. It is the oldest and largest
employee-owned publisher in the United States and is well known for its "Norton Anthologies" and "Norton Critical Editions," series of texts which are frequently assigned in university literature courses.
Company history
The company was established in 1923 when
William Warder Norton and his wife, Mary D. Herter Norton, began publishing lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult education division of New York City's
Cooper Union. Early in its history Norton entered the fields of philosophy, music, and psychology, publishing acclaimed works by
Bertrand Russell, Paul Henry Lang, and
Sigmund Freud (as his principal American publisher).
In the 1940s, Norton expanded its history textbook publishing with Edward McNall Burns's Western Civilizations, while the 1950s brought the addition of international figures such as the renowned authority on human development,
Erik Erikson. Norton also developed the Norton Anthology series during the 1950s.
In the 1960s, the company initiated a poetry program that now includes
Pulitzer Prize winners
Rita Dove,
Stephen Dunn, and
Maxine Kumin;
National Book Critics Circle Award winner B. F. Fairchild;
National Book Award winners
Adrienne Rich,
A. R. Ammons,
Gerald Stern,
Stanley Kunitz, and
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W. W. Norton & Company now publishes about 400 books annually in hardcover and paperback.
Social sciences
In the social sciences and sciences, Norton has published books by such authors as economists
Paul Krugman and
Joseph Stiglitz, paleontologist
Stephen Jay Gould, physicist
Richard Feynman, and historians
Peter Gay,
Jonathan Spence,
Eric Foner,
Christopher Lasch, and
George F. Kennan.
Since the 1950s, Norton's college textbook line has expanded to include leading titles in economics, psychology, political science, and sociology.
Best sellers
Its best-selling trade books include
Helter Skelter by
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry;
Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller
Guns, Germs, and Steel;
Patrick O'Brian’s critically acclaimed naval adventures; the works of National Book Award-winning fiction author
Andrea Barrett; "Khruschev: The Man and His Era" by William Taubman, "Hitler: Hubris" and "Hitler: Nemesis" by Ian Kershaw,
Liar's Poker and
Moneyball by
Michael Lewis;
Fareed Zakaria’s
The Future of Freedom;
Sebastian Junger’s
The Perfect Storm; and
Sam Harris’s
The End of Faith.
Distributees
Norton currently distributes books for sixteen independent publishers, including the following:
- Fantagraphics Books, which publishes graphic fiction and comics.
- New Directions Publishing, which focuses on publishing literature in translation, poetry, and recent classics.
- The New Press, a not-for-profit publisher that focuses on contemporary social issues, education reform and alternative teaching materials, cultural criticism, art and art education, international literature. and law and legal studies.
- Thames & Hudson, a publisher of illustrated books in art, architecture, anthropology, fashion, graphic design, photography, and travel.
- Verso Books, the "the largest radical publisher in the English-language world".
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Employee-owned corporations are corporations owned in whole or in part by their employees.
..... Click the link for more information. William Warder Norton (September 17, 1891 – November 7, 1945), was a publisher and 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 Daws Herter, known as Polly or Mary.
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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (commonly referred to simply as The Cooper Union) is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City.
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist.
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Sigmund Freud
Born May 6 1856(1856--)
Freiberg, Moravia, now the Czech Republic
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Psychoanalysis
Constructs
Psychosexual development
Psychosocial development
Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious
Id, ego, and super-ego
Libido • Drive
Transference • Sublimation • Resistance
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Pulitzer Prize
Awarded for Excellence in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition
Presented by Columbia University
Country United States
First awarded 1917
Official website
The
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Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is an American poet and author. In 1987 she became the second African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950).
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Stephen Dunn (b. 1939, New York City) is an American poet. Dunn has written fourteen collections of poetry, and has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours.
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Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) is an American poet and author.
Life
Born in Philadelphia, Kumin, the daughter of Jewish parents, attended Catholic kindergarten and lower schools. She received her B.A. in 1946 and her M.A. in 1948 from Radcliffe College.
..... Click the link for more information. The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.
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The National Book Awards are among the most eminent literary prizes in the United States. Started in 1950, the awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the prior year, as well as lifetime achievement awards including the "Medal of Distinguished
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Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer.
Career
In 1951, the year she graduated from Radcliffe College, Adrienne Rich received the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, which led to the publication of her
..... Click the link for more information. A. R. Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American author and poet.
Life
Ammons was born in 1926 and raised in rural North Carolina, near Whiteville, the youngest of a tobacco farmer's three surviving children.
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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. to Harry and Ida Barach Stern, he was educated in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Stern earned his B.A. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1947 and an M.A.
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Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United
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Born: January 02 1947 (1947--) (age 60)
Albany, Texas
Occupation: Poet
Nationality: American
Genres: African American literature
Literary movement: Imagism
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Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist. Krugman, a liberal, is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Born January 9 1943 (1943--) (age 64)
Gary, Indiana
Residence U.S.
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Stephen Jay Gould
Natural History magazine
Born September 10, 1941
Queens borough of New York City, New York
Died May 20 2002 (aged 62)
Nationality American
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Richard Phillips Feynman
Richard Feynman, dust jacket photo for
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Born May 11 1918(1918--
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Peter Gay (born June 20, 1923), a Jewish American historian of the social history of ideas, born as Peter Joachim Fröhlich in Berlin, where he was educated at the Goethe-Gymnasium. After witnessing Kristallnacht in 1938, he fled Nazi Germany in 1939.
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Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese name: Simplified Chinese: 史景迁; Traditional Chinese: 史景遷; Pinyin:
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Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at Columbia University since 1982 and writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party,
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Christopher Lasch (born June 1, 1932, Omaha, Nebraska; died February 14, 1994, Pittsford, New York) was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic.
Life
Lasch's father had been a Rhodes Scholar before becoming a newspaperman in Omaha.
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Helter Skelter is a true crime book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. The subject of the book is the 1969 Manson Family murders and Bugliosi's own prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers.
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Vincent Bugliosi (pronounced boo-lee-OH-see, with a silent g) (born August 18, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota) is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
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Jared Diamond
Born: 10 September 1937 (1937--) (age 70)
Boston
Occupation: Nonfiction writer, Professor of Geography at UCLA
Nationality: American
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Paperback cover
Author Jared Diamond
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s)
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