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Norbert Blei
Ellison Bay, WI
Born: 1935
​Died: 2013
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Listen to Patty Murry's program about Blei on WPR
Biography:

Norbert Blei, born in Chicago, and the author of a trilogy concerning that city and its people — Chi Town, Neighborhood, and The Ghost of Sandburg’s Phizzog — has lived in Door County, Wisconsin since l969. His Wisconsin writing includes the award-winning trilogy Door Way, Door Steps, and Door to Door, as well as Meditations on a Small Lake and the controversial Chronicles of a Rural Journalist in America, dedicated to the preservation of the rural landscape. For the last 40 years, Blei has worked out of a converted chicken coop near Europe Lake in Ellison Bay.

Headshot attribution: Doordude at en.wikipedia

Works by Norbert Blei:
Novels
  • The Second Novel: Becoming a Writer (1978)
  • Adventures in an American's Literature (1982)
Non-fiction
  • Door Way: The People in the Landscape (1981)
  • Door Steps (1983)
  • Door to Door (1985)
  • Neighborhood (1987)
  • Meditations on a Small Lake (1987)
  • Chi-Town (1990)
  • Chronicles of a Rural Journalist in America (1990)
  • Winter Book (2002)
Poetry
  • Paint Me a Picture/Make Me a Poem (1987)
  • 'The Quiet Time: Door County in Winter' (1997)
Articles
  • A Review of The Insanity of Empire: A Book of Poems Against the Iraq War, by Robert Bly 
  • Lowell B. Comie: An Interview, published in After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art (2003) 
  • A Review of My Racine by David Kherdian, published in Wisconsin Academy Review (1996) 
Collections & Anthologies
  • Wisconsin's Rustic Roads: A Road Less Travelled; Photographs by Bob Rashid, Text By Ben Logan, George Vukelich, Jean Feraca, Norbert Blei and Bill Stokes (1995)
  • Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place, by David Pichaske, University of Iowa Press (2006) 
  • Selected Anthologies 
Recordings
  • The Quiet Time, Door County in Winter: Readings by Norb Blei/Music by Jim Spector (1997)
  • Readings from Door Way (1996)
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