Duncan Norton-Taylor | |
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Born | 1904 |
Died | September 13, 1982 (aged 77–78)
Easton, Maryland, US |
Education | Brown University |
Occupation(s) | journalist, editor |
Years active | 1939–1965 |
Employer(s) | Time, Fortune |
Spouse | Margaret Scott |
Children | 3 |
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]
Norton-Taylor graduated Brown University, where he worked at The Brown Jug.
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]
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.)
Norton-Taylor wrote and edited more than half a dozen books.