W. Drake McFeely (born c. 1954) is the chairman and president of the independent and employee-owned American publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Education and career

McFeely attended

Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

and earned his B.A. in Fine Arts from

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

in 1976. After graduation, he was hired by W. W. Norton as a college sales representative. He was named an editor in 1982, a vice president in 1990, and was associate director of the college division from 1993 to 1994. He became Norton’s fifth president in 1994, and was appointed chairman in 2000.

Notable editorial acquisitions

Originally the economics (''Economics'' and ''Economics of the Public Sector'' by Joseph E. Stiglitz, ''Intermediate Microeconomics'' by

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, ''Macroeconomics'' by Robert E. Hall and John B. Taylor) and physics (''Physics'' by Hans C. Ohanian) editor in Norton’s college department, he still acquires and edits books in the trade division for Norton. He is the editor of a cluster of books each by Nobel Prize–winning authors Joseph E. Stiglitz and

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, as well as

Fareed Zakaria Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (; born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's ''Fareed Zakaria GPS'' and writes a weekly paid column for ''The Washington Post.'' He has been a columnist ...

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, Sean Wilentz, Steven Pinker, and

Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke ( ; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014. After leaving the Fed, he was appointed a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution. Durin ...

, among others. In 2004 he acquired the publishing rights to '' The 9/11 Commission Report'', which hit #1 on a number of online bestseller lists within hours of its release, as well as #1 on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list, going on to sell over a million copies as one of the bestselling government reports of all time.

Affiliations

McFeely also serves on the boards of the Association of American Publishers, National Book Foundation, and

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial su ...

Marriage

He is married to Karen McFeely (née Eliason).

References

External links

W. W. Norton & Company's website
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