W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

W. W. Norton & Company is the oldest, largest book publishing house owned by its employees. Its publishing activities go beyond hefty college textbooks to include general-interest (fiction, history, biography) and professional (psychotherapy, architecture and design) books. Over 1,000 schools have partnered with Norton Custom to create learning and assessment tools that teachers love and students can afford. W.W. Norton has published the works of authors ranging from Sigmund Freud and Paul Henry Lang to Paul Krugman (economics) and Fareed Zakaria (foreign affairs). Founded in 1923, Norton and his wife, Mary Dows Herter Norton, hired a stenographer and began transcribing and publishing the lectures delivered at the People's Institute, the adult division of Cooper Union in New York City. The employee-owned company also owns book publisher Countryman Press.

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