W. W. Norton & Company is the oldest and largest employee-owned publishing house. We pride ourselves on our independence and are committed to our founding vision of publishing “Timeless Books.”
It started as a passion project. William Ward Norton and Mary Dawes Hurter Norton had been married only a year when they embarked on a journey "to bring to the public the knowledge of our time."Norton authors have won some of the most prestigious awards in the United States and around the world, from the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award to the Nobel Prize. Here is a brief overview of some of these major prizes.
Norton's books have been made into motion pictures, documentaries, and major Broadway plays, and have been featured (even as partners in murder!) in dramatic and comedic television series.
