Norman Rosten
{{short description|American poet}}{{Infobox writer|birth_date=January 1, 1913|death_date=March 7, 1995|death_place=New York City, US|notable_works=screenplay for Vu du Pont|awards={{hlist|Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition|Guggenheim Fellowship}}}}
Norman Rosten (January 1, 1913 – March 7, 1995) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.
Life
Rosten was born to a Polish Jewish family{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SUvr7QceBzYC&q=Norman+Rosten&pg=PA155|first=Jeffrey|last=Meyers|title=The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe|page=155 |publisher=University of Illinois Press; 1st edition|date=January 19, 2012|isbn=9780252078545}}Migrants, Immigrants, and Slaves: Racial and Ethnic Groups in America
By Thompson Dele Olasiji. p.118. 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.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/09/obituaries/norman-rosten-81-playwright-and-brooklyn-s-poet-laureate.html| title=Norman Rosten, 81, Playwright And Brooklyn's Poet Laureate| author= MEL GUSSOW| date=March 9, 1995| work=The New York Times}} He visited Mickey Knox in Rome.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vpzv8i3P9SMC&q=Norman+Rosten&pg=PA280| title=The good, the bad, and the dolce vita: the adventures of an actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome| author=Mickey Knox| publisher=Nation Books| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-56025-575-8 }}
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.{{cite book| title=Earth That Sings: on the poetry of Andrew Glaze| editor=Doreski, William | publisher=Houston, Texas: Ford-Brown & Co| year=1985| isbn=0-918644-16-X
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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{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/12590-norman-rosten |title=Norman Rosten - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |website=www.gf.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604004524/http://www.gf.org/fellows/12590-norman-rosten |archive-date=2011-06-04}}
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
- {{cite book| title=Selected Poems| publisher=G. Braziller| year=1979| isbn=978-0-8076-0938-5| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/selectedpoems00rost}}
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llcqV6ZcJ5UC| title=A City Is| editor=Patricia Rosten Filan| others=Illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg| publisher=Macmillan| year= 2004| isbn= 978-0-8050-6793-4 }}
- In Guernica
=Plays=
- First Stop to Heaven, 1941
- {{cite book| title=Mister Johnson| year= 1969| url=https://archive.org/details/misterjohnson0000rost| url-access=registration| quote=Norman Rosten.| publisher=Dramatists Play Service, Inc.| isbn= 978-0-8222-0764-1 }} (premiere 1956)
- Mardi Gras
- The Golden Door
- {{cite book| title=Come Slowly, Eden | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xt7Mmvvgdi4C&q=Norman+Rosten| publisher=Dramatists Play Service, Inc.| year= 1967| isbn= 978-0-8222-0228-8 }}
=Novels=
- Under the Boardwalk, Prentice-Hall, 1968
- Over and Out, G. Braziller, 1972
- {{cite book| title=Love in All Its Disguises| publisher=Arbor House| year= 1981| isbn= 978-0-87795-324-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=Neighborhood Tales| publisher=G. Braziller| year= 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=
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMXF0cRMuQ8C&q=Norman+Rosten&pg=PA97| chapter=The March| title=The wound and the dream: sixty years of American poems about the Spanish Civil War| editor=Cary Nelson| publisher=University of Illinois Press| year= 2002| isbn= 978-0-252-07070-9 }}
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051211004542/http://www.wiredforbooks.org/normanrosten/index.htm "Audio Interview with Norman Rosten", Wired for Books]}}
- {{IMDb name|744577}}
- [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/rosten-norman.html "Norman Rosten", doollee]
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Category:American opera librettists
Category:Jewish American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Jewish American novelists
Category:Jewish American poets
Category:Brooklyn College alumni
Category:New York University alumni
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:Yale Younger Poets winners
Category:American people of Polish descent
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American poets
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Hopwood Award winners
Category:American male novelists
Category:American male dramatists and playwrights