John Norton is an American

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writer.

Life

John Norton graduated from

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

and the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

with an M.A. and Ph.D. He taught at the

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

. John moved to San Francisco in the 1970s and soon afterward joined Robert Gluck's Writing Workshop at

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. His poems and stories began to appear in a variety of small magazines and literary journals, including ''America,'' ''New American Writing,'' ''CrossConnect,'' ''Kayak'', ''Oxygen'', ''Beatitude'', ''Blue Unicorn'', ''Onthebus'', and ''Processed World''. John served as board president of

Literary Arts Center and the Irish Arts Foundation. He helped organize the Crossroads Irish American Festival. He read from his work in San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Riverside, Rochester, and Toulouse, France. John lived in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, and worked in

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as a technical writer and editor. John was married to artist Anne Subercaseaux in San Francisco, previously partners for 17 years. He was born on July 4, 1936, in Boston and died on August 9, 2015, in San Francisco.

Awards

American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

Works

* ''Air Transmigra'' (San Francisco: Ithuriel's Spear) August 2010. * ''Re:Marriage'' (San Francisco: Black Star Series) 2000. * ''The Light at the End of the Bog'', (San Francisco: Black Star Series) 1989, 1992 * ''Posthum(or)ous'' (San Francisco: e. g. press) 1985 (chapbook)

Anthologies

* ''Beatitude 1959-2009 Golden Anniversary Anthology'', (America's Press, 2010) * ''The Before Columbus Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990'', (W.W. Norton & Company, 1991)

References

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