Norman Corwin
Author
1910 – 2011
Who was Norman Corwin?
Norman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.
Corwin was among the first producers to regularly use entertainment—even light entertainment—to tackle serious social issues. In this area he was a peer of Orson Welles and William N. Robson, and an inspiration to other later radio/TV writers such as Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Norman Lear, J. Michael Straczynski and Yuri Rasovsky.
He was the son of Samuel and Rose Corwin and was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Corwin was a major figure during the Golden Age of Radio. During the 1930s and 1940s he was a writer and producer of many radio programs in many genres: history, biography, fantasy, fiction, poetry and drama. He was the writer and creator of series such as The Columbia Workshop, 13 By Corwin, 26 By Corwin and others. He recently was a lecturer at the University of Southern California.
Corwin won a One World Award, two Peabody Medals, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a duPont-Columbia Award; he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Lust for Life. On May 12, 1990, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Lincoln College. In 1996 he received the Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from California Lutheran University. Corwin was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.
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- Born
- May 3, 1910
Boston - Also known as
- Norman Lewis Corwin
- Poet Laureate of Radio
- Parents
- Spouses
- Katherine Locke
(1947 - 1995/09/12)
- Katherine Locke
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Employment
- University of Southern California
- CBS Radio News
(1938 - )
- Lived in
- Boston
- Died
- Oct 18, 2011
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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