Norman Rosten

Norman Rosten (born January 1, 1913 in New York City , † March 7, 1995 there ) was an American writer .

Rosten attended Brooklyn College and New York University and graduated from the University of Michigan , where he took the same drama class with Arthur Miller . In 1939 he went back to New York, where he wrote poetry and radio plays. With his first volume of poetry, Return Again, Traveler , he won the Yale University Series of Younger Poets in 1940 , which earned him a Guggenheim scholarship .

In the following years he published poems a. a. in The New Yorker magazine . After several volumes of poetry, Selected Poems was published in 1979 . His first drama First Stop to Heaven was only performed eight times in New York in 1941, but he had far more success with the next works such as Mister Johnson , which premiered on Broadway in 1956 and later made James Earl Jones' breakthrough at the Equity Library Theater , Mardi Gras , The Golden Door and Come Slowly, Eden , a portrait of the poet Emily Dickinson .

His first novel, Under the Boardwalk appeared in 1968 and was the literary critic of the New York Times , Ronald Sukenick in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson saw. This was followed by the novels Over and Out (1972), Love in All Its Disguises (1981) and Neighborhood Tales (1986). In 1972 he wrote the script for Sidney Lumet's film A View from the Bridge . His most famous work was Marilyn: An Untold Story , a biography of the actress Marilyn Monroe , with whom he was friends during the last years of her life. He later wrote the libretto for Ezra Laderman's opera Marylin , which premiered at New York City Opera in 1992 . In 1979 Borough President Howard Golden named him poet laureate of Brooklyn.

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SURNAME	Rust, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1995
Place of death	New York City