Norman Rosten Explained
Birth Date: | January 1, 1913 |
Death Date: | March 7, 1995 |
Death Place: | New York City, US |
Notable Works: | screenplay for Vu du Pont |
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 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.
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
- Book: Selected Poems. G. Braziller. 1979. 978-0-8076-0938-5. registration.
- Book: A City Is. Patricia Rosten Filan. Illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg. Macmillan. 2004. 978-0-8050-6793-4 .
- In Guernica
Plays
- First Stop to Heaven, 1941
- Book: Mister Johnson. 1969. registration. Norman Rosten.. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 978-0-8222-0764-1 . (premiere 1956)
- Mardi Gras
- The Golden Door
- Book: Come Slowly, Eden . Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. 1967. 978-0-8222-0228-8 .
Novels
- Under the Boardwalk, Prentice-Hall, 1968
- Over and Out, G. Braziller, 1972
- Book: Love in All Its Disguises. Arbor House. 1981. 978-0-87795-324-1 .
- Book: Neighborhood Tales. G. Braziller. 1986. 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
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=AMXF0cRMuQ8C&q=Norman+Rosten&pg=PA97. The March. The wound and the dream: sixty years of American poems about the Spanish Civil War. Cary Nelson. University of Illinois Press. 2002. 978-0-252-07070-9 .
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Meyers, Jeffrey. The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. 155 . University of Illinois Press; 1st edition. January 19, 2012. 9780252078545.
- Migrants, Immigrants, and Slaves: Racial and Ethnic Groups in America By Thompson Dele Olasiji. p.118.
- News: Norman Rosten, 81, Playwright And Brooklyn's Poet Laureate. MEL GUSSOW. March 9, 1995. The New York Times.
- Book: The good, the bad, and the dolce vita: the adventures of an actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome. Mickey Knox. Nation Books. 2004. 978-1-56025-575-8 .
- Book: Earth That Sings: on the poetry of Andrew Glaze. Doreski, William . Houston, Texas: Ford-Brown & Co. 1985. 0-918644-16-X .
- Web site: Search : The New Yorker . www.newyorker.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121016234957/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= . 2012-10-16.
- Web site: Norman Rosten - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . www.gf.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604004524/http://www.gf.org/fellows/12590-norman-rosten . 2011-06-04.