<Tr> <Th> No. of employees </Th> <Td> 500 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Official website </Th> <Td> wwnorton.com </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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