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Howard Norman


Born
in Toledo, Ohio, The United States
March 04, 1949

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction


Howard A. Norman (born 1949), is an American award-winning writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, Eskimo, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages. ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 13,837 ratings · 2,240 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors
The Bird Artist
3.83 avg rating — 4,061 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions
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What Is Left the Daughter
3.47 avg rating — 2,846 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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I Hate to Leave This Beauti...
3.70 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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The Museum Guard
3.57 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 1998 — 31 editions
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My Darling Detective
3.36 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions
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Next Life Might Be Kinder
3.67 avg rating — 786 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions
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Come to the Window
3.45 avg rating — 725 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions
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The Ghost Clause
3.50 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions
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The Haunting of L
3.58 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 2001 — 19 editions
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The Northern Lights
3.89 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions
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“What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?”
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“Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give”
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“Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't.”
― Norman, Howard
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