Email: michael.norman@nyu.edu
Michael Norman, the author of THESE GOOD MEN: Friendships Forged in War, a memoir published to critical acclaim in 1990, is a former reporter and columnist for The New York Times national, foreign and metropolitan desks. Norman was the inaugural writer for the following New York Times columns: "A Sense of Place", a monthly column that explored the dislocations of modern life in one suburban town; "Lessons", a national column on education; and "Our Towns", a twice-weekly column on life outside New York City.
Norman's work also includes major articles for various other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine and GQ Magazine. His work has been syndicated both here and abroad. He has recently completed his second major work of narrative, this with his wife, Elizabeth Norman. The book is a "layered narrative" of the largest defeat in American military history told from three cultural points of view: Japanese, Filipino, American. It was assembled from several hundred interviews and more than 3,000 documentary sources and will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2009.
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