| 词条 | W. Drake McFeely |
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Education and careerMcFeely attended Phillips Exeter Academy[2] and earned his B.A. in Fine Arts from Amherst College in 1976. After graduation, he was hired by W. W. Norton as a college sales representative. He was named an editor in 1982, a vice president in 1990, and was associate director of the college division from 1993 to 1994. He became Norton’s fifth president in 1994, and was appointed chairman in 2000.[3] Notable editorial acquisitionsOriginally the economics (Economics and Economics of the Public Sector by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Intermediate Microeconomics by Hal R. Varian, Macroeconomics by Robert E. Hall and John B. Taylor) and physics (Physics by Hans C. Ohanian) editor in Norton’s college department,[1] he still acquires and edits books in the trade division for Norton. He is the editor of a cluster of books each by Nobel Prize–winning authors Joseph E. Stiglitz[4] and Paul Krugman,[5] as well as Fareed Zakaria,[6] Seamus Heaney, Sean Wilentz,[7] Steven Pinker,[8] and Ben Bernanke,[9] among others. In 2004 he acquired the publishing rights to The 9/11 Commission Report, which hit #1 on a number of online bestseller lists within hours of its release, as well as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, going on to sell over a million copies as one of the bestselling government reports of all time.[10][11][12][13] AffiliationsMcFeely also serves on the boards of the Association of American Publishers,[14] National Book Foundation,[15] and Princeton University Press.[16] MarriageHe is married to Karen McFeely (née Eliason).[17] References1. ^1 {{cite news|title=Book Notes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/18/movies/book-notes-127612.html?pagewanted=2|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 18, 1994}} 2. ^{{cite journal|title=Reunions|journal=The Exeter Bulletin|date=July 11, 2007|issue=Summer 2007|page=82|url=http://www.exeter.edu/documents/Exeter_Bulletin/SU07_REU_7.11.07.pdf}} 3. ^{{cite journal|title=June 2007, ENewsletter|journal=National Book Foundation eNewsletter|date=June 2007|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/enews_2007_06.html|accessdate=18 March 2013}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Stiglitz|first=Joseph E.|title=Globalization and Its Discontents|year=2002|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|isbn=0-393-05124-2|page=xxi}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Krugman|first=Paul|title=The Great Unraveling|year=2003|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|isbn=0-393-05850-6|page=xiii}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=Zakaria|first=Fareed|title=The Post-American World|year=2008|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-06235-9|page=270}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Our Trustees|url=http://www.ithaka.org/trustee|work=ITHAKA website|accessdate=18 March 2013}} 8. ^{{cite book|last=Pinker|first=Steven|title=How the Mind Works|year=1997|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|location=New York|isbn=0-393-04535-8|page=xi}} 9. ^{{Cite web|title = Norton to Publish Ben Bernake Memoir|url = http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/norton-to-publish-ben-bernake-memoir/86557|website = www.adweek.com|accessdate = 2015-12-02}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Book version for sale|url=http://amarillo.com/stories/072204/usn_book.shtml|accessdate=18 March 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 22, 2004}} 11. ^{{cite news|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|title=Bookstores Counting Strong Sales for the Commission's Report|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/24/us/threats-responses-publication-bookstores-counting-strong-sales-for-commission-s.html?n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fT%2fTerrorism|accessdate=18 March 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 24, 2004}} 12. ^{{cite news|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|title=For Publisher of 9/11 Report, a Royalty-Free Windfall|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/business/for-publisher-of-9-11-report-a-royalty-free-windfall.html|accessdate=18 March 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 28, 2004}} 13. ^{{cite news|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|title=Publisher Names 9/11 Charities|url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/books/21nort.html?_r=0|accessdate=18 March 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 21, 2005}} 14. ^{{cite web|title=Officers and Board of Directors|url=http://publishers.org/board/|accessdate=18 March 2013}} 15. ^{{cite web|title=About Us - Board of Directors|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/aboutus_bod.html|accessdate=18 March 2013}} 16. ^{{cite web|title=Peter J. Dougherty, Director of Princeton University Press|url=http://press.princeton.edu/about_pup/dougherty.html|accessdate=18 March 2013}} 17. ^{{cite news|title=Karen Gail Eliason Sets August Bridal|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/01/22/110774662.pdf|accessdate=18 March 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 22, 1978}} External links
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