Duncan Norton-Taylor

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 Fortunes managing editor.[1] In 1965, he stepped down and joined Fortunes 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.

• Time magazine
• Fortune magazine
• Whittaker Chambers