Howard Norman biography

Howard Norman Biography

Howard A. Norman, is an American award-winning writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages.

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.

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 worked on a fire crew with Cree Indians after dropping out of High School. It is during this time that 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.

He also 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

Novels

1. The Northern Lights (1987)
2. The Bird Artist (1994)
3. The Museum Guard (1998)
4. The Haunting of L (2002)
5. Devotion (2007)
6. What Is Left the Daughter (2010)
7. Next Life Might Be Kinder (2014)

Collections

1. The Wishing Bone Cycle (poems) (1982)
2. Kiss in the Hotel (1989)
3. Northern Tales (1990)
4. The Girl Who Dreamed Only Geese (1997)
5. The Chauffeur (2002)
6. Between Heaven and Earth (2004)

Nonfiction

1. How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants (1989)
2. Trickster and the Fainting Birds (1999)
3. My Famous Evening (2004)
4. In Fond Remembrance of Me (2005)
5. I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place (2013)

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