Email: michael.norman@nyu.edu

Michael Norman 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 is the author of the author of THESE GOOD MEN: Friendships Forged in War, a memoir published to critical acclaim in 1990, and co-author, with his wife, Elizabeth M. Norman, of Tears in The Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in June 2009. The publisher is calling the book a new kind of literary reportage, "Narrative Portraiture."

Available Syllabi:

• G54.1023.01 THE JOURNALISTIC TRADITION: READING TO WRITE
• V54.0401.01 THE LITERATURE OF JOURNALISM: LEARNING FROM THE BEST TO BE THE BEST