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Norbert Blei
Ellison Bay, WI Born: 1935 Died: 2013 Link to Wikipedia Page 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
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)
- 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)
- Paint Me a Picture/Make Me a Poem (1987)
- 'The Quiet Time: Door County in Winter' (1997)
- 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)
- 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
- The Quiet Time, Door County in Winter: Readings by Norb Blei/Music by Jim Spector (1997)
- Readings from Door Way (1996)