Name Norman Rosten Role Poet | Movies A View from the Bridge | |
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Spouse Hedda Rosten (m. 1938–1984) Education 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 |
Marilyn monroe on her friend and poet norman rosten
Norman Rosten (January 1, 1913 – March 7, 1995) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.
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- Marilyn monroe on her friend and poet norman rosten
- Marilyn monroe norman rosten last phone call
- Life
- Awards
- Poetry
- Plays
- Novels
- Non fiction
- Anthologies
- References

Marilyn monroe norman rosten last phone call
Life

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.

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. 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.