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. Norton-Taylor and Chambers both rose to become senior editors.

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. is the author of "Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair", 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) I Went to See for Myself (1945) God's Man: A Novel on the Life of John Calvin (1979)

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

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