Discipline: Literature

Charles Norman

Discipline: Literature
Region: Newport, RI
MacDowell Fellowships: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1960
Charles Norman was a Russian poet and author. He wrote for The Paris Times and as an assistant night editor for the North American Newspaper Alliance. He later worked for The Associated Press, United Press International, Time and P.M. He also continued to write poetry. Alfred A. Knopf published Poems in 1929, and The Bright World, and Other Poems appeared the next year. After serving in the infantry in World War II, Norman returned to his job at P.M. and published two volumes of war poetry, The Savage Century (1942) and A Soldier's Diary (1944). He also wrote his first biography, The Muses' Darling (1946), a life of Christopher Marlowe. From 1947 to 1950 he taught Shakespeare at New York University, an interest reflected in his second book, So Worthy a Friend: William Shakespeare (1947).

Studios

Mansfield

Charles Norman worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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