The firm soon expanded its program beyond the Institute,
publishing books by celebrated academics from America and abroad. By
mid-century, the two major pillars of Norton’s publishing program—trade books
and college texts—were firmly established. In the 1950s, the Norton family transferred
control of the company to its employees, and today—with a staff of four
hundred and a comparable number of trade, college, and professional titles published
each year—W. W. Norton & Company stands as the largest and oldest
publishing house owned wholly by its employees.
