The Norton Reader

Stimulating. Entertaining. Fresh. A treasure trove. These are just some of the words reviewers use to describe the Sixteenth Edition of The Norton Reader. Essays on timely issues and enduring ideas will welcome and engage students, and trusted introductions, notes, and question prompts provide the support they need. With nearly 50 new selections from today’s most influential and exciting voices (24 in the Shorter Edition), four new chapters, and enhanced digital tools, the Sixteenth Edition offers students a dynamic and flexible suite of resources to foster close reading and confident writing.

About the Author :
Melissa A. Goldthwaite (Ph.D., The Ohio State University), General Editor, is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, where she teaches composition, creative writing, and rhetorical theory. Her books include Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (New York University Press, 2014), The Norton Pocketbook of Writing by Students (2010), Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams (University of Utah Press, 2003), and The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003, 2008, 2014). Joseph Bizup (Ph.D., Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University. He previously taught and directed writing programs at Yale University and Columbia University in the City of New York. His scholarly interests include nineteenth-century literature, especially nonfiction prose, and writing studies, especially genre, style, and argumentation. Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader and editor of a textual edition of Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press. Her articles have appeared in Feminist Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Guernica, Open Letters Monthly, and multiple edited collections.