Duncan Norton-Taylor


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.

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. Norton-Taylor and Chambers both rose to become senior editors.
In 1951, Norton-Taylor became an editor at Fortune. In 1959, he became Fortunes managing editor. In 1965, he stepped down and joined Fortunes board of editors.
In 2012, Fortune republished an article by Norton-Taylor called "How Top Executives Live" from 1955.

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.

Works

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

Books written