Howard Norman Biography
Howard Norman is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His 1987 novel, The Northern Lights, was nominated for a National Book Award, as was his 1994 novel The Bird Artist. He is also author of the novels The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, and Devotion. His books have been translated into twelve languages. Norman teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland. He lives in Washington, D.C., and Vermont with his wife and daughter.
Norman's parents were Russian-Polish-Jews who met in a Jewish orphanage. Norman was born in Toledo, Ohio but his family moved a number of times so that he attened four different elementary schools. After dropping out of high school he moved to Toronto and then to Manitobawhere he worked on a fire crew with Cree Indians. He
became fascinated with their folkstories and culture and spent the next sixteen years living and writing in Canada's Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Greenland.
During this time, he received his high school equivalency diploma, and then studied at Western Michigan University Honors College, receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in zoology and English. He then earned a Masters of Arts degree from the Folklore Institute of Indiana University.
Bibliography to 2010
Novels
The Northern Lights (1988)
The Bird Artist (1994)
The Museum Guard (1998)
The Haunting of L (2002)
Devotion (2007)
What Is Left the Daughter (2010)
Collections
The Wishing Bone Cycle (poems) (1982)
Kiss in the Hotel (1989)
Northern Tales (1990)
The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese (1997)
The Chauffeur (2002)
Between Heaven and Earth (2004)
Nonfiction
How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants (1989)
Trickster and the Fainting Birds (1999)
My Famous Evening (2004)
In Fond Remembrance of Me (2005)
Bibliography source: fantasticfiction.com
This biography was last updated on 06/17/2010.
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