W. W. Norton
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W. W. Norton & Company is an American book publishing company.
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 Ai.
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.
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; Liar's Poker and Moneyball by Michael Lewis; Fareed Zakaria’s The Future of Freedom; and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm.
Since the 1950s, Norton's college textbook line has expanded to include leading titles in economics, psychology, political science, and sociology.
W. W. Norton & Company now publishes about 400 books annually in hardcover and paperback.
External link
- Official Homepage (http://www.wwnorton.com/)