Norman Rosten

Norman grids ( born January 1, 1913 in New York City; † March 7, 1995 ) was an American writer.

Grates attended Brooklyn College and New York University and studied at the University of Michigan, where he attended the same class for drama with Arthur Miller. In 1939 he returned to New York, where he wrote poetry and radio plays. With his first book of poems Return Again, Traveler, he was winner of the 1940 Series of Younger Poets Yale University, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In the following years he published poems, among others in the New Yorker magazine. After several volumes of poetry Selected Poems appeared in 1979. His first drama First Stop to Heaven was only performed in New York in 1941 eight times, he had far more success with the next works such as Mister Johnson, which was premiered in 1956 on Broadway and later James Earl Jones Theater to break through the Equity Library, Mardi Gras, the Golden Door and Come Slowly, Eden, a portrait of the poet Emily Dickinson.

His first novel, Under the Boardwalk appeared in 1968 and was seen by the literary critic of the New York Times, Ronald Sukenick in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson. This was followed by the novels Over and Out (1972 ), Love in All Its Disguises (1981) and Neighborhood Tales ( 1986). In 1972 he wrote the screenplay for Sidney Lumet's film A View from the Bridge ( view from the bridge ). His most famous work was Marilyn: An Untold Story, a biography of the actress Marilyn Monroe, with whom he was friends during their last years of life. Later he also wrote the libretto for Ezra loader Mans Opera Marylin, which premiered in 1992 at the New York City Opera. 1979 appointed him to the Borough President Howard Golden for poet laureate of Brooklyn.

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  • New York Times - Obituaries, March 9, 1995 - Norman grates, 81, Playwright And Brooklyn's Poet Laureate
  • Man
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 1995
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  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • Novel, epic
  • Biography
  • Screenwriter
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  • Literature (United States)
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