Norman Munro

Norman Leslie Munro (1842–1894) was a Canadian-American publisher.

Norman Leslie Munro
Born	1843 (1843)[1] Pictou County, Nova Scotia, British North America[1]
Died	February 24, 1894(1894-02-24) (aged 50–51)[1] Manhattan, New York, U.S.[1]
Burial place	Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New York, U.S.[2]
Nationality	Canadian-American
Occupation	Publishing
Children	2
Relatives	George Munro (brother)[1]

In 1873 Munro established the New York Family Story Paper, which gained a weekly circulation of 325,000.^[3] He also published Boys of New York, Our Boys, Munro's Library, and the American juvenile magazine Golden Hours in the late 19th century. One of his main writers was H. Irving Hancock. He also published Nellie Bly's 1887 investigative journalism exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House.

Throughout his life, Munro owned several fast steam yachts including the Herreshoff-designed Norwood, which garnered extensive media attention for its competition with William Randolph Hearst's rival yacht Vamoose to set speed new records.^[4][5]

Munro died on February 24, 1894, in New York City after an appendectomy and was survived by his wife and two children.^[1] He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.^[2]