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Duncan Norton-Taylor

American journalist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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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

  • With My Heart in My Mouth (1944)[6]
  • I Went to See for Myself (1945)[7]
  • God's Man: A Novel on the Life of John Calvin (1979)[8]

Books edited

  • Cold Friday by Whittaker Chambers, edited and with an introduction by Duncan Norton-Taylor (1964)[9][10]
  • The Celts, Duncan Norton-Taylor and the editors of Time-Life Books (1974)[11]
  • For Some, the Dream Came True: The Best from 50 years of Fortune Magazine, selected and edited by Duncan Norton-Taylor (1981)[12]

Adaptations

  • Beautiful but Young: A Contest Selection by Olive White Fortenbacher, arranged from Duncan Norton-Taylor's story of the same name (1932)[13]
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References

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