Duncan Norton-Taylor was an American journalist who was a senior editor at ''

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'' magazine and managing editor at ''

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'' magazine from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Background

Norton-Taylor graduated Brown University, where he worked at

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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,

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. In 1940,

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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 ''Fortune'' 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

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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, 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

, 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)

References

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