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W. W.

Norton & Company


2 Publishing
W. W. Norton & Company is an employee-owned publisher in the United States,[3] which publishes ction, nonction, poetry, college textbooks, cookbooks, art books,
and professional books.[4]

3 Series
Norton Anthologies
Norton Critical Editions

4 See also
Oxford Worlds Classics
Verso Books Radical Thinkers

5 References
[1] Norton History. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
[2] Gale Directory of Company Histories: W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc.. Retrieved 20 March 2013.

500 Fifth Avenue

[3] Norton History. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2013.

W. W. Norton & Company is an American publishing


company based in New York City. 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, the latter of which
are frequently assigned in university literature courses.

[4] Stock Page for W. W. Norton & Company. BusinessWeek.com.

6 External links
Ocial website

Making the Cut - Chronicle of Higher Education

History

The roots of the company date back to 1923, when


William Warder Norton founded the rm with his wife
Mary Norton, and became its rst president.[1] Storer D.
Lunt took over in 1945 after Nortons death, and was
succeeded by George Brockway (19571976), Donald S.
Lamm (19761994), and now W. Drake McFeely (1994
present).[2]
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7 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

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Text

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Images

File:500_5th_Av_from_6th_Av_sunset_jeh.jpg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/500_5th_Av_from_


6th_Av_sunset_jeh.jpg License: CC0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: Jim.henderson
File:WWNorton-Logo.png Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/WWNorton-Logo.png License: Fair use Contributors:
The logo is from the http://books.wwnorton.com website. http://www.samwellers.com/bookdrop/ Original artist: ?

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Content license

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