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September 12, 1977, Page 36 The New York Times Archives

Storer Boardman Lunt, past president and chairman of the board of W. W. Norton & Company, the book publishers, died Saturday at a hospital in Fall River, Mass., after a long illness. He was 80 years old and maintained homes in Little Compton, R.I., and in New York City.

Mr. Lunt joined Norton in 1930, first as sales manager, then as vice president eventually succeeding the late W. W. Norton as president in 1945 and becoming chairman in 1958.

George P. Brockway, chairman of W. W. Norton, said yesterday that Mr. Lunt traveled widely across the country and was seldom without his “great fat notebook” listing names and addreses of bookstores and friends that he planned to visit.

Among the authors with whom he worked were Edith Hamilton, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, Lancelot Hogben, Bertrand Russell, Karen Homey, Mary Ellen Chase, Carl Binger, Erik Erikson, Paul Henry Lang, Barbara Ward, Chiang Yee and Rollo May.

Mr. Lang, former music critic of the New York Herald Tribune and the author of several books on music, said that as a publisher Mr. Lunt was “exceptionally friendly with his authors.”

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“One could always go to him even if a problem was outside of the publishing business,” he said.

According to Mr. Lang, his publisher was a typical Down Easterner,” who loved nature and delighted in hunting and fishing. The two men often went on overnight camping trips in the woods.

He was past president of the American Book Publishers Council and was largely responsible for its amalgamation into the present Association of American Publishers.

Mr. Lunt was also the first American to be elected president of the International Publishers Association.

He was born in Portland, Me. He was a graduate of Yale University and di graduate work at Cambridge University in England.

Mr. Lunt served in World War I as a second lieutenant in the field artillery.

Surviving are his wife, the former Margaret K. McElderry, and brother, Dudley C.

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