"If Ionesco had written an American suspense thriller, it might be something like this." - Los Angeles Times
"We are kept on the edge of our seats as events move toward a climax beyond expectation ... Makes us laugh our way up a mountain of success." - The Scotsman
"Lock's weapon is words and he uses them well. ... like a nightmare that wakes you up shaking, forcing you to reassess your life." - LA Life
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Norman Lock has written novels, short fiction, and poetry as well as stage plays, dramas for German radio, a film for The American Film Institute, and scenarios for video-art installations. His plays have been produced in the U.S., Germany, at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, and in Turkey. His work has been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese.
He received the Aga Kahn Prize, given by The Paris Review, the Literary Fiction Prize, given by The Dactyl Foundation of the Arts & Humanities, fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. (source: http://www.normanlock.com/)