Norman Rosten

Rosten was born to a Polish Jewish family in New York City and grew up in Hurleyville, New York. He graduated from Brooklyn College and New York University, and the University of Michigan, where he met Arthur Miller. Each won the Avery Hopwood Award. ==Career==

In 1979, Brooklyn's borough president Howard Golden named Rosten as the poet laureate of Brooklyn. Rosten was a poetry consultant for Simon and Schuster Publishers. It was through that role that he came to know fellow poet Andrew Glaze. The two became friends and Glaze later dedicated his book I am the Jefferson County Courthouse to Rosten. His work appeared in The New Yorker. ==Death==

Rosten married his wife, Hedda Rowinski, in 1938. Together they had one child, daughter Patricia, in 1946. He resided in Brooklyn after college. The Rostens knew Marilyn Monroe for the last seven years of her life. Rosten died in New York City from congestive heart failure on March 7, 1995, at the age of 81. ==Awards==

• 1940 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition • 1941 Guggenheim Fellowship ==Works==

Poetry • Return Again, Traveler, Yale University Press, 1940 • The big road: a narrative poem, Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946 • Imagine Seeing You Here: a world of poetry, lively and lyrical • Thrive Upon the Rock, Trident Press, 1965 • • • In Guernica Plays • First Stop to Heaven, 1941 • Mister Johnson, an adaptation of Joyce Cary's novel of the same name (premiere 1956) • Mardi Gras • The Golden Door • Novels • Under the Boardwalk, Prentice-Hall, 1968 • Over and Out, G. Braziller, 1972 • • Non-fiction • Marilyn: An Untold Story, New American Library, 1973 • Marilyn among Friends, with photographer Sam Shaw. UK: Bloomsbury (1987) Anthologies • ==References==