Tom Mayer

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About Tom Mayer

Executive Editor and Vice President with 20+ years experience in the publishing industry and a track record of acquiring and publishing bestselling and award-winning books, managing complex and fast-paced projects with high-profile public figures and institutions, including politicians, novelists, academics, journalists, celebrities, and media corporations. TOM MAYER PROMOTED TO VICE-PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR AT W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC. New York, April 27, 2023—Tom Mayer, vice-president and senior editor at W. W. Norton & Company, has been named an executive editor in the trade department, announced Brendan Curry, director of Norton’s Trade Group, and John Glusman, editor-in-chief. “Tom has made enormous contributions to the Norton list with books that span the full range of literary, cultural, and historical subjects,” commented Mr. Glusman. “His critically praised, award-winning titles stand out for their timeliness, relevance, and visionary power,” added Mr. Curry. His books have won or been finalists for most top national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Bancroft Prize (where he has had winners for the past three years). He has acquired and edited seven works of fiction by Lydia Millet, among them the National Book Award finalist and New York Times Top 10 book A Children’s Bible; the sensational Super Pumped, the basis for the Showtime series, by award-winning New York Times journalist Mike Isaac; the news-breaking Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist The Family Roe by Joshua Prager; several best-selling books by mortician and funeral industry reformer Caitlin Doughty, including her memoir Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; the major New York Times bestseller A Colony in a Nation by the host of MSNBC’s All In, Chris Hayes; books by public radio personalities Brooke Gladstone and Andrea Bernstein and by legendary designer Milton Glaser; and Bancroft winners including Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández, The Chinese Question by Mae Ngai, and Unworthy Republic by Claudio Saunt (also a National Book Award finalist), among many other award-winning titles.