Norman Rosten

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Died March 7, 1995, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Spouse Hedda Rosten (m. 1938–1984) Education University of Michigan (1937–1938), New York University (1936), Brooklyn College (1931–1935) Books A city is, Selected Poems, Under the Boardwalk, Marilyn: An Untold Story, Come slowly - Eden Similar People Sam Shaw, Sidney Lumet, Raf Vallone, Arthur Miller

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Norman Rosten (January 1, 1913 – March 7, 1995) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.

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Life

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Rosten was born to a Polish Jewish family 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.

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

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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. He visited Mickey Knox in Rome.

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.

His work appeared in The New Yorker.

Rosten died in New York City from congestive heart failure on March 7, 1995 at the age of 81.

Awards

1940 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

1941 Guggenheim Fellowship

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.

Plays

First Stop to Heaven, 1941

Mister Johnson. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 1969. ISBN 978-0-8222-0764-1. (premiere 1956)

Mardi Gras

The Golden Door

Come Slowly, Eden. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 1967. ISBN 978-0-8222-0228-8.

Novels

Under the Boardwalk, Prentice-Hall, 1968

Over and Out, G. Braziller, 1972

Love in All Its Disguises. Arbor House. 1981. ISBN 978-0-87795-324-1.

Neighborhood Tales. G. Braziller. 1986. ISBN 978-0-8076-1152-4.

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

Norman Rosten Wikipedia

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