Tag: W. W. Norton & Company

  • So begins this epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—Annette Gordon-Reed’s “riveting history” of the Hemings family, whose story comes to vivid life in this brilliantly researched and deeply moving work.…

  • The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.

  • The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 384 pages 5.5 × 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-33029-8 Martha Hodes, Professor of History New York University Finalist for the Lincoln Book Prize. Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary…

  • The Age of Jim Crow W. W. Norton & Company October 2008 434 pages 5.4 × 8.2 in Paperback ISBN 978-0-393-92758-0 Jane Dailey, Associate Professor of American History University of Chicago America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune. In The Age of Jim Crow, Jane Dailey introduces…

  • Passing W. W. Norton & Company September 2007 584 pages 5.2 × 8.4 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-97916-9 Nella Larsen Edited by Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature. Larsen’s status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by…

  • In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist.