W.W. Norton & Company - Wikipedia W.W. Norton & Company W.W. Norton & Company Status Active Founded 1923 ; 95 years ago ( 1923 ) Founder William Warder Norton Country of origin United States Headquarters location 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York Distribution self - distributed ( US ) Penguin Random House ( Canada trade ) Nelson Canada ( Canada textbooks ) John Wiley & Sons ( UK, Australia ) Key people Julia A. Reidhead, President Publication types Books Imprints Countryman, Liveright No. of employees 500 Official website wwnorton.com 500 Fifth Avenue 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. Contents 1 History 2 Publishing 3 Series 3.1 Norton Anthologies 3.2 Norton Critical Editions 4 Notable authors 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History The roots of the company date back to 1923, when William Warder Norton founded the firm with his wife Mary 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 was vice president and publishing director of Norton 's College division and a former editor of the Norton Anthologies. Publishing W.W. Norton & Company is an employee - owned publisher in the United States, which publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, college textbooks, cookbooks, art books, and professional books. Series Norton Anthologies Norton Anthologies collect canonical works from various literatures ; perhaps the best known anthology in the series is the Norton Anthology of English Literature, as of 2018, in its 9th edition. Norton Anthologies offer general headnotes on each author, a general introduction to each period of literature, and annotations for every anthologized text. Norton Critical Editions Like Penguin Classics, Norton Critical Editions provide reprints of classic literature ( and in some cases, classic non-fiction works, such as the writings of Darwin ). However, unlike most critical editions, all Norton Critical Editions provide a selection of contextual documents, and critical essays along with an edited text. Annotations to the text are provided as footnotes, rather than endnotes as well. Notable authors Dean Acheson A.R. Ammons Diane Ackerman Andrea Barrett Vincent Bugliosi Jared Diamond Rita Dove John Dower Andre Dubus III Stephen Dunn Erik Erikson Eric Foner Nadine Gordimer Annette Gordon - Reed Stephen Greenblatt Seamus Heaney Sam Harris Carl Jung Sebastian Junger Nicole Krauss Eric Kandel Paul Krugman Maxine Kumin Stanley Kunitz Joseph Lash Michael Lewis William McFeely John Matteson Edmund Morgan Edmund Phelps Gustave Reese Adrienne Rich Mary Roach Jonathan Spence Joseph Stiglitz William Taubman Neil deGrasse Tyson Harold Varmus Isser Woloch Sean Wilentz Edward O. Wilson Fareed Zakaria See also Oxford World 's Classics Verso Book 's Radical Thinkers Albatross Publishing House Boni & Liveright References Jump up ^ `` International Representatives W.W. Norton & Company ''. Retrieved 2018 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ `` Contact ''. W.W. Norton & Company Ltd. Retrieved 2018 - 05 - 28. Jump up ^ `` Norton History ''. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` Norton History W.W. Norton & Company ''. books.wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2018 - 05 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Gale Directory of Company Histories : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. '' Retrieved 20 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` News W.W. Norton & Company ''. books.wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2018 - 05 - 14. Jump up ^ `` Norton History ''. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Retrieved 20 March 2013. Jump up ^ `` Stock Page for W.W. Norton & Company ''. BusinessWeek.com. External links Official website Making the Cut - Chronicle of Higher Education Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W._W._Norton_%26_Company&oldid=853249709 '' Categories : 1923 establishments in New York ( state ) Book publishing companies based in New York ( state ) Companies based in New York City Employee - owned companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1923 W.W. 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