W. W. Norton & Company

W. W. Norton & Company
StatusActive
Founded1923 (1923)
Founders
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York
Distributionself-distributed (US)
Penguin Random House (Canada trade)
Nelson Canada (Canada textbooks)
John Wiley & Sons (UK, Australia)
Key peopleJulia A. Reidhead
(President)
Publication typesBooks
ImprintsCountryman
Liveright
Norton Professional
Norton Young Readers
No. of employees500
Official websitewwnorton.com

W. W. Norton & Company is an American publishing company based in New York City. Established in 1923, 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, both of which are frequently assigned in university literature courses.