Illinois Authors

Norbert Blei

Born: 1935 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 2013 in Sister Bay, Wisconsin

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Blei was born in an ethnic (primarily Czechoslovakian) neighborhood of western Chicago, Illinois known as Little Village, in the 26th & Pulaski area. An only child, Blei and his parents moved to the near-western Chicago suburb of Cicero when he was in grade school.

Biography: Norbert Blei began his career teaching high school English and subsequently worked at City News Bureau as a reporter. Blei left Chicago and moved to Door County in 1969, where he has lived and worked as a writer for over 40 years. For four decades, he worked in a converted chicken coop in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. He was also the editor/publisher of a small literay press (devoted to helping writers get their first books in print--and also supporting 'veteran' little magazine, small press writers who may have drifted into obscurity). The name of his press was CROSS+ROADS PRESS, founded in 1997.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Non-Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: nblei@dcwis.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/search/?post_form_id=40e9f3d1b1b2513558540e8fe9a42bf9&q=+Norbert+Blei+&init=quick&ref=search_loaded#!/pages/Norbert-Blei/108069409221500?ref=search=norbert+blei
Website: http://www.norbertblei.com/code/home.asp
Website: http://www.bleidoorcountytimes.com
Website: http://www.poetrydispatch.wordpress.com
Website: http://www.bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com
Website: http://www.nbcoop.outlawpoetry.com
Norbert Blei on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=norbert+blei

Selected Titles

	Adventures in an American's literature / ISBN: 0933180411 OCLC: 17620873 Ellis, Peoria, Ill. : ©1982.
	Chi town ISBN: 0944024106 OCLC: 22289546 Ellis Press, Granite Fall, Minn. : 1990.
	Chi town / ISBN: 0810120402 OCLC: 51242087 Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. : 2003.
	Chronicles of a rural journalist in America / ISBN: 0962614033 OCLC: 23012002 Samizdat Press, Sister Bay, Wis. : 1990.
	Door steps : ISBN: 0933180446 OCLC: 10025594 Ellis Press, Peoria, Ill. : ©1983.
	Door to door / ISBN: 093318073x OCLC: 12352363 Ellis Press, Peoria, Ill. : 1985.
	Door way : ISBN: 0933180225 OCLC: 7978838 Ellis Press, Peoria, Ill. : ©1981.
	Door way : ISBN: 9780944024591 OCLC: 866615584 Weaving a tapestry of lives and landscapes, past and present, earth and water, Blei celebrates the unique heritage of Door County, Wisconsin, a spectacular peninsula reaching into Lake Michigan. Blei ponders the balance of nature in a place where locals, tourists, and developers vie with the native flora and fauna of forests and lakeshore--adapted from publisher's website.
	Meditations on a small lake : ISBN: 0933180993 OCLC: 16948534 Ellis Press, Peoria, Ill. : 1987.
	Meditations on a small lake : ISBN: 9780944024454 OCLC: 234303395 Ellis Press, Granite Falls, Minn. : ©2008.
	Neighborhood / ISBN: 0944024009 OCLC: 17010671 Ellis Press, Peoria, Ill. : 1987.
	The ghost of Sandburgʼs Phizzog and other stories / ISBN: 093318087X OCLC: 14053158 Ellis Press, Peoria, Ill. : 1986.
	The hour of the sunshine now : ISBN: 0931704006 OCLC: 3844281 [Story Press], [Chicago] : ©1978.
	The second novel : ISBN: 0913204099 OCLC: 4900821 December Press, Chicago : ©1978.