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). Cooper Union - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was one of the most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and logicians of the modern age, working mostly in the 20th century. ... Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. ...

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. Erik Homburger Erikson (June 15, 1902 - May 12, 1994) was a developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis. Bibliography Major works: Childhood and Society (1950) Young Man Luther. ...

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. Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is a United States poet and author. ... Stephen Dunn (born 1939 in New York City, New York) is an American poet. ... The National Book Awards are the preeminent literary awards in the United States, presented annually for the best book by a living US citizen published in the United States. ... Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist poet, teacher, and writer. ... Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh) is a United States poet. ... Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. ... (Redirected from ) In the eddic poem R gthula (Old Norse R ula ) Song of R g, the name R g is applied to a god who is called old and wise, mighty and strong who wandered through the world and brought into being (apparently by fathering them) the progenitors of...

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. Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who has written several books and who currently (as of 2005) is a columnist for The New York Times. ... Joseph Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist, author and winner of Nobel Prize for economics ( 2001). ... Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a New York-born American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. ... Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man; in IPA) was one of the most influential American physicists of the 20th century, expanding greatly the theory of quantum electrodynamics. ... Peter Gay, a Jewish American historian of the social history of ideas, born in Berlin in 1923 as Peter Joachim Frohlich . ... Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian, specialising in Chinese history. ... Eric Foner is a leading historian specializing in nineteenth century American history, the American Civil War and Reconstruction. ... Christopher Lasch (* June 1, 1932, in Omaha, Nebraska; † February 14, 1994, in Pittsford, NY) was one of the well-known American historians and social critics. ... George F. Kennan by Ned Seidler, Smithsonian Institution, 1947 George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was best known as the father of containment and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. ...

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. This article is about the Beatles song. ... Vincent Bugliosi (born August 18, 1934) is an attorney and author. ... Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American author, evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and Jew. ... Patrick OBrian ( December 12, 1914– January 2, 2000; original name Richard Patrick Russ) was a novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of Captain Jack Aubrey and Irish–Catalan physician... Michael Lewis is an American contemporary non-fiction author. ... Fareed Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is a writer and journalist specializing in international relations. ...

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/)