Howard Norman
Author of The Bird Artist
About the Author
Howard Norman was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1949 and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Western Michigan University, the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, and the University of Michigan. His work with the Cree Indians created an interest and he then got a job as a translator of show more Native American poems and folktales. He put together a collection of his translations in the book, The Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians, which was named the co-winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by the Academy of American Poets. With the Help of a Whiting Award, he has also written The Northern Lights as well as Kiss in the Hotel, Joseph Conrad and Other Stories, and The Bird Artist, which was named one of Time Magazine's Best Five Books of 1994 and won the New England Booksellers Association Prize in Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Howard Norman
Tales of the Sea 1 copy
Associated Works
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell (2001) — Contributor — 193 copies
Lafayette Life: Words and Images Since 1928: The History of One Neighborhood School in Washington D.C. (1999) — Introduction, some editions — 2 copies
New World Journal #5 — Translator — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Norman, Howard
- Birthdate
- 1949-03-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
Canada - Birthplace
- Toledo, Ohio, USA
- Places of residence
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Labrador, Canada
Newfoundland, Canada - Education
- Western Michigan University (graduate)
Indiana University - Occupations
- educator
writer - Relationships
- Shore, Jane (wife)
- Awards and honors
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1996)
Whiting Writers' Award (1985) - Short biography
- Although his official bio's all state that Howard Norman isn't Canadian, having been born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Michigan, he now holds dual citizenship and does consider himself Canadian. I have this directly from Mr. Norman, who I met at a book festival on October 3, 2009. When I mentioned that many people are surprised to learn that he is not Canadian, he said "Oh, but I AM." Good enough for me.
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