Howard Norman

Howard Norman was awarded the Lannan Prize in fiction. He is the author of eight novels, including The Bird Artist, What Is Left the Daughter, and My Darling Detective.  His new novel, The Ghost Clause, will be published in July, 2019. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland, but his home is in Vermont. He is also the author of three memoirs, including I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place, and a number of books for children. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Merrill Foundation. He recently wrote the screenplay for his novel Next Life Might Be Kinder for the Bolivian director Fernando Arze. He is completing a memoir about friendship, particularly with the painter Jake Berthot, When News Filtered to the Angels They Were Overwhelmed by Loneliness.

Photo Credit: Emma Norman Photography