Julia Reidhead

President & Chairwoman, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Julia A. Reidhead is Chairman and President of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.. She is the first woman to lead the company and to oversee all of its departments, including College, Trade, Norton Ltd., W. W. Norton Canada, and the imprints Liveright, Countryman Press, Norton Professional Books, and Norton Young Readers. Ms. Reidhead previously served as Vice President and Publishing Director of Norton’s College Department, where, for more than 30 years, she was the principal in-house editor of the lauded Norton Anthologies, among them The Norton Anthology of English Literature and first editions of The Norton Shakespeare, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and The Norton Anthology of World Religions. On the Trade side, she has edited works by Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Pauli Murray, Russell Shorto, and Anne Enright.