Norman Rosten

Norman Rosten (January 1, 1913 New York City - March 7, 1995) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.

Life

He grew up in Hurleyville, New York and was graduated from Brooklyn College and New York University, and the University of Michigan, where he met Arthur Miller. Each won the Avery Hopwood Award.

In 1979, Brooklyn's borough president Howard Golden named Rosten as the poet laureate of Brooklyn.

Among Rosten's work outside the field of poetry, he wrote the libretto for Ezra Laderman's opera "Marilyn". He also wrote the screenplay for the Sidney Lumet's film Vu du Pont, adapting Miller's "A View from the Bridge."^[1] He visited Mickey Knox in Rome.^[2]

His work appeared in The New Yorker.^[3]

Awards

• 1940 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
• 1941 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[4]

Works

Poetry

• Return Again, Traveler, Yale University Press, 1940
• The big road: a narrative poem, Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946
• Imagine Seeing You Here: a world of poetry, lively and lyrical
• Selected Poems. G. Braziller. 1979. ISBN 9780807609385. 
• Patricia Rosten Filan, ed (2004). A City Is. Illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg. Macmillan. ISBN 9780805067934. http://books.google.com/books?id=llcqV6ZcJ5UC. 

Plays

• First Stop to Heaven, 1941
• Mister Johnson. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 1969. ISBN 9780822207641. http://books.google.com/books?id=oqTL_aL7prUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Norman+Rosten&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false.  (premiere 1956)
• Mardi Gras
• The Golden Door
• Come Slowly, Eden. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 1967. ISBN 9780822202288. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xt7Mmvvgdi4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Norman+Rosten&lr=&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

Novels

• Under the Boardwalk, Prentice-Hall, 1968
• Over and Out, G. Braziller, 1972
• Love in All Its Disguises. Arbor House. 1981. ISBN 9780877953241. 
• Neighborhood Tales. G. Braziller. 1986. ISBN 9780807611524. 

Non-fiction

• Marilyn: An Untold Story, New American Library, 1973

Anthologies

• Cary Nelson, ed (2002). "The March". The wound and the dream: sixty years of American poems about the Spanish Civil War. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252070709. http://books.google.com/books?id=AMXF0cRMuQ8C&pg=PA97&dq=Norman+Rosten&lr=&cd=25#v=onepage&q=Norman%20Rosten&f=false. 

References

1. ^ MEL GUSSOW (March 9, 1995). "Norman Rosten, 81, Playwright And Brooklyn's Poet Laureate". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/09/obituaries/norman-rosten-81-playwright-and-brooklyn-s-poet-laureate.html. 
2. ^ Mickey Knox (2004). The good, the bad, and the dolce vita: the adventures of an actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome. Nation Books. ISBN 9781560255758. http://books.google.com/books?id=vpzv8i3P9SMC&pg=PA280&dq=Norman+Rosten&lr=&cd=23#v=onepage&q=Norman%20Rosten&f=false. 
3. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=&submit.x=39&submit.y=8&submit=Submit&bylquery=norman+rosten&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=
4. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/12590-norman-rosten

External links

• "Audio Interview with Norman Rosten", Wired for Books
• "Norman Rosten", IMDB
• "Norman Rosten", doollee

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Date of birth	1904
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Date of death	March 7, 1995
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