Bird Artist
by Howard Norman
List Price: $13.00
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0312130279
Publisher: Picador USA
Howard Norman grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After graduating from Western
Michigan University, he moved to Canada to work as a writer and researcher, with a special
interest in the country's indigenous Indian tribes. He is familiar with several Inuit and
Algonquin dialects, and his published translations of northern folklore include Where
the Chill Came From, How the Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants (a children's book), and
an anthology, Northern Tales, which he selected and edited.
In 1977, Norman first encountered the eastern seaboard of Newfoundland, and learned of a
local artist who, at the turn of the century, had committed a murder. Armed with a time, a
place, and an event, Norman pent the years that followed thinking about the story that
would become The Bird Artist. In the meantime, he wrote his first novel, The
Northern Lights, which was nominated for the 1987 National Book Award, and a
collection of short stories, Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad.
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