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American poet
Norman Rosten
Born January 1, 1913 Died March 7, 1995 New York City, US Notable works screenplay for
Vu du Pont Notable awards
Norman Rosten (January 1, 1913 – March 7, 1995) was an American
poet ,
playwright , and
novelist .
Life
Rosten was born to a
Polish Jewish family
[1]
[2] in
New York City and grew up in
Hurleyville, New York . He 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
Sidney Lumet 's film
Vu du Pont , adapting Miller's
A View from the Bridge .
[3] He visited
Mickey Knox in Rome.
[4]
Rosten was a poetry consultant for Simon and Schuster Publishers. It was through that role that he came to know fellow poet
Andrew Glaze . The two became friends and Glaze later dedicated his book I am the Jefferson County Courthouse to Rosten.
[5]
His work appeared in The New Yorker .
[6]
Rosten died in New York City from congestive heart failure on March 7, 1995, at the age of 81.
[3]
Awards
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
Thrive Upon the Rock , Trident Press, 1965
Selected Poems . G. Braziller. 1979.
ISBN
978-0-8076-0938-5 .
Patricia Rosten Filan, ed. (2004).
A City Is . Illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg. Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-8050-6793-4 .
In Guernica
Plays
Novels
Non-fiction
Marilyn: An Untold Story, New American Library, 1973
Marilyn among Friends , with photographer Sam Shaw. UK:
Bloomsbury (1987)
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
978-0-252-07070-9 .
References
^ Meyers, Jeffrey (January 19, 2012).
The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe . University of Illinois Press; 1st edition. p. 155.
ISBN
9780252078545 .
^ Migrants, Immigrants, and Slaves: Racial and Ethnic Groups in America
By Thompson Dele Olasiji. p.118.
^
a
b MEL GUSSOW (March 9, 1995).
"Norman Rosten, 81, Playwright And Brooklyn's Poet Laureate" . The New York Times .
^ Mickey Knox (2004).
The good, the bad, and the dolce vita: the adventures of an actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome . Nation Books.
ISBN
978-1-56025-575-8 .
^ Doreski, William, ed. (1985). Earth That Sings: on the poetry of Andrew Glaze . Houston, Texas: Ford-Brown & Co.
ISBN
0-918644-16-X .
^
"Search : The New Yorker" . www.newyorker.com . Archived from
the original on 2012-10-16.
^
"Norman Rosten - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation" . www.gf.org . Archived from
the original on 2011-06-04.
External links
International National Academics Other