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Michael Norman

Born: 1947 in Macomb, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Michael Norman holds a Master's degree from DeKalb's Northern Illinois University.

Biography: Michael Norman began his carer at the De Kalb Daily Chronicle, De Kalb, IL, as a staff writer, from 1971-72. He then went to WRHL-Radio, Rochelle, IL, as the news director, from 1972-73. Norman is now a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, where he taught a wide-range of courses in writing, media law, public opinion and broadcast journalism. He served as department chair for 18 years, managed the Midwest Writers' Conference and also served as director of the UW-River Falls University Press.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Other

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Email: jmichaelnorman@msn.com
Website: http://www.michaelnorman.us
Michael Norman on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=michael++norman


Selected Titles

Haunted America /
ISBN: 0312857519 OCLC: 30896100

TOR, New York : 1994.

Haunted heartland /
ISBN: 0880296143 OCLC: 29666928

Barnes & Noble, New York : 1992, ©1985.

Readers will enter an America they never knew existed with more than 150 true stories of ghosts, haunted houses, possession and exorcism, of vanishing people and ships, mystery lights, premonitory dreams and more.

  Haunted Wisconsin /
ISBN: 0299285944 OCLC: 794489218

Terrace Books, Madison, Wis. : ©2011.

Historic haunted America /
ISBN: 0765319705 OCLC: 154670707

Tor, New York : 2007, ©1995.

The nearly departed :
ISBN: 0873517172 OCLC: 300982477

Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, MN : ©2009.

 

 

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