Duncan Norton-Taylor

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Duncan Norton-Taylor
Born1904
DiedSeptember 13, 1982 (aged 7778)
Education Brown University
Occupation(s)journalist, editor
Years active19391965
Employer(s) Time , Fortune
SpouseMargaret Scott
Children3

Duncan Norton-Taylor was an American journalist who was a senior editor at Time magazine and managing editor at Fortune magazine from the 1940s through the 1960s. [1]

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Background

Norton-Taylor graduated Brown University, where he worked at The Brown Jug.

Career

Upon graduating, Norton-Taylor began work as a newspaper reporter. [1]

He joined Time as a writer in 1939, the same year as his long-time colleague and friend, Whittaker Chambers. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "contributing editors" at Time in the play, Love's Old Sweet Song. [2] Norton-Taylor and Chambers both rose to become senior editors. [1]

In 1951, Norton-Taylor became an editor at Fortune. In 1959, he became Fortune's managing editor. [1] In 1965, he stepped down and joined Fortune's board of editors. [1]

In 2012, Fortune republished an article by Norton-Taylor called "How Top Executives Live" from 1955. [3]

Personal

Norton-Taylor married Margaret Scott. They had three daughters: Susan Norton-Taylor May, Nancy Norton-Taylor Tomson, and Joan Norton-Taylor. He lived in Oxford, Maryland in retirement from 1967 onwards. [1] He died on Monday, September 13, 1982, at Memorial Hospital in nearby Easton, Maryland, after a stroke, aged 78. Surviving him were his wife, daughters, and nine grandchildren. [1]

(His great-grandson, Scott Laudati, [4] is the author of "Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair", [5] a book of poetry published in 2014 by Kuboa Press.)

Works

Norton-Taylor wrote and edited more than half a dozen books.

Books written

Books edited

Adaptations

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Duncan Norton-Taylor Dies; A Retired Editor of Fortune". New York Times. 18 September 1982.
  2. Saroyan, William (1940). Love's Old Sweet Song: A Play in Three Acts. Samuel French. p. 72. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. Norton-Taylor, Duncan (1955). "How Top Executives Live". Archived from the original on 29 November 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  4. Medium. https://medium.com/@scottlaudati
  5. Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Hawaiian-Shirts-Electric-Chair-Laudati/dp/0692338519/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430471934&sr=8-1&keywords=scott+laudati
  6. "With My Heart in My Mouth". Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  7. "I Went to See for Myself". Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  8. "God's Man: A Novel on the Life of John Calvin". Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  9. Chambers, Whittaker (1964). Cold Friday . Random House. p.  128. ISBN   0-394-41969-3.
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  11. "The Celts". Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  12. "For Some, the Dream Came True: The Best from 50 years of Fortune Magazine". Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  13. "Beautiful but young, a contest selection, arranged from Duncan..." Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 February 2013.