Book Brahmin: Howard Norman

Howard Norman is the author of the novels The Bird Artist and The Museum Guard, as well as a children's book, Between Heaven and Earth, and the memoir In Fond Remembrance of Me. He is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Prize, a NEIBA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and three fellowships from the NEA. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland.


On your nightstand now:

A biography of Somerset Maugham, Ann Beattie's Walks with Men and Collected Plays of Max Frisch.
 
Favorite book when you were a child:

An illustrated Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Your top five authors:

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Thomas Pynchon, Max Frisch, George Eliot, W.S. Merwin and Keats.

Book you've faked reading:

What would be the purpose?

Book you're an evangelist for:

Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.

Book you've bought for the cover:

None!

Book that changed your life:

The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin.

Favorite line from a book:

"How have I outlived my own mind?"--Nikolai Gogol, The Inspector-General.
 
Book you most want to read again for the first time:

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

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Photo by Emma Norman

 

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