Duncan Norton-Taylor
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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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.{{cite news |title=Duncan Norton-Taylor Dies; A Retired Editor of Fortune |newspaper=New York Times |date=18 September 1982 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/18/obituaries/duncan-norton-taylor-dies-a-retired-editor-of-fortune.html}}
Background
Norton-Taylor graduated Brown University, where he worked at The Brown Jug.
Career
Upon graduating, Norton-Taylor began work as a newspaper reporter.
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.{{cite book |first=William |last=Saroyan |authorlink=William Saroyan |title=Love's Old Sweet Song: A Play in Three Acts |publisher=Samuel French |url= https://archive.org/stream/lovesoldsweetson013163mbp/lovesoldsweetson013163mbp_djvu.txt |page=72 |date=1940 |accessdate=15 July 2017}} Norton-Taylor and Chambers both rose to become senior editors.
In 1951, Norton-Taylor became an editor at Fortune. In 1959, he became Fortune{{'s}} managing editor. In 1965, he stepped down and joined Fortune's board of editors.
In 2012, Fortune republished an article by Norton-Taylor called "How Top Executives Live" from 1955.{{cite web |first=Duncan |last=Norton-Taylor |title=How Top Executives Live |url= http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/06/classic-top-500-executives/ |year=1955 |accessdate=3 February 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121129024508/http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/06/classic-top-500-executives/ |archive-date=29 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}
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. 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.
(His great-grandson, Scott Laudati,Medium. https://medium.com/@scottlaudati is the author of "Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair",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 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){{cite web |title=With My Heart in My Mouth |publisher=Library of Congress |url= http://lccn.loc.gov/44004980 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
- I Went to See for Myself (1945){{cite web |title=I Went to See for Myself |publisher=Library of Congress |url= http://lccn.loc.gov/45007143 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
- God's Man: A Novel on the Life of John Calvin (1979){{cite web |title=God's Man: A Novel on the Life of John Calvin |publisher=Library of Congress |url=http://lccn.loc.gov/79052951 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
=Books edited=
- Cold Friday by Whittaker Chambers, edited and with an introduction by Duncan Norton-Taylor (1964){{Cite book |last=Chambers |first=Whittaker |title=Cold Friday |url= https://archive.org/details/coldfriday00cham |url-access=limited |publisher=Random House |year=1964 |page= [https://archive.org/details/coldfriday00cham/page/128 128] |isbn=0-394-41969-3}}
{{cite web |title=Cold Friday |publisher=Library of Congress |url= http://lccn.loc.gov/64020025 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
- The Celts, Duncan Norton-Taylor and the editors of Time-Life Books (1974){{cite web |title=The Celts |publisher=Library of Congress |url= http://lccn.loc.gov/74017779 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
- For Some, the Dream Came True: The Best from 50 years of Fortune Magazine, selected and edited by Duncan Norton-Taylor (1981){{cite web |title=For Some, the Dream Came True: The Best from 50 years of Fortune Magazine |publisher=Library of Congress |url= http://lccn.loc.gov/81009034 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
=Adaptations=
- Beautiful but Young: A Contest Selection by Olive White Fortenbacher, arranged from Duncan Norton-Taylor's story of the same name (1932){{cite web |title=Beautiful but young, a contest selection, arranged from Duncan... |publisher=Library of Congress |url= http://lccn.loc.gov/ca35000766 |accessdate=3 February 2013}}
See also
- Time magazine
- Fortune magazine
- Whittaker Chambers
References
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