Tom Mayer, Executive Editor and Vice President at W. W. Norton, publishes both literary fiction and general nonfiction in a wide variety of categories including history, memoir, sociology, politics, big think, music, popular science, and narrative journalism. Notable authors include MSNBC host Chris Hayes, bestselling YouTube mortician Caitlin Doughty, New York Times technology journalist Mike Isaac, Pulitzer Finalist Joshua Prager, legendary designer Milton Glaser, Washington Post political humorist Alexandra Petri, Bancroft Prize-winning historians Claudio Saunt, Mae Ngai, and Kelly Lytle Hernández, distinguished novelist Lydia Millet, the painter David Salle, the theorist Douglas Rushkoff, and many others. Books he’s edited have won or been finalists for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Awards, and many others. He is also a co-leader of Norton Shorts, a series of brief books (under 200 pages) by rising academic scholars designed to popularize major new ideas rising from important disciplines from history to computer science to biology and sociology.