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  Contacting Corwin
Norman Corwin works and teaches in southern California, and enjoys hearing from colleagues and listeners.
Corwin, you can do so by email or snailmail.
To write Norman Corwin via the US Postal Service, write to:
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  Norman Corwin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corwin was a major figure in during the Golden Age of Radio.
Corwin began his career as a writer for a local Massachusetts newspaper, and soon moved to writing for WBZA, a radio station in Massachusetts.
According to Ray Bradbury, Corwin was responsible for the eventual publication of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/norman_corwin   (870 words)

  
 Norman Corwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norman Lewis Corwin (born May 3, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing.
Corwin has won the 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 (1956).
Corwin was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Corwin   (901 words)

  
 Corwin
When infant station WBZA requested that the newspaper provide a radio news reader, Corwin was assigned, and soon he was producing a poetry program--Rhymes and Cadences--while writing newspaper articles and radio copy as well as his first (failed) attempt at a novel.
Corwin went on to produce and direct the Columbia Workshop, showcasing some of the finest writers, actors, and musicians available.
Later, Corwin produced a celebration piece for the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights ("We Hold These Truths") to be aired on all four networks simultaneously and starring Hollywood luminaries James Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Marjorie Main, Orson Welles, and many others, as well as president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
www.maurice-abravanel.com /corwin.html   (834 words)

  
 Norman Corwin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corwin was a major figure in during the (Click link for more info and facts about Golden Age of Radio) Golden Age of Radio.
In 1936 Corwin moved to (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City, and created a program for independent station WQXR.
Corwin is (A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties) Jewish, and his parents observed (The monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud) Judaism.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/norman_corwin.htm   (1051 words)

  
 A Tribute to a Radio Legend
The "tape" is the 1995 documentary Corwin, which weaves reminiscences of Corwin's friends and admirers, including Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid and Norman Lear, with documentary footage of World War II and excerpts from Corwin's radio dramas of the '30s and '40s.
Corwin, whose modesty and charm are almost as legendary as his body of work, will be forced to endure twin tributes on April 30 and May 1, organized by the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills.
Corwin, who insisted on carrying a younger visitor's canvas bag on a recent walk through campus, mentions that his father lived to age 110, but doesn't dwell on his own age.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/2697.html   (1650 words)

  
 Norman Corwin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
NOTE: Norman Corwin's masterwork, On A Note of Triumph, will be broadcast on NPR and the BBC to celebrate its 60th Anniversary, May 8.
Norman Corwin is one of the greatest living writers in the English language, and has been called America's "poet laureate of radio."
Norman Corwin celebrated his 95th birthday on May 3, 2005, and today lives in Los Angeles, keeping busy as always.
www.normancorwin.com   (386 words)

  
 JUF News and Public Affairs
Corwin claimed fame as a pioneer of radio during the Golden Age of Radio, a renaissance that swept through America in the 1940s.
Corwin, who is Jewish, started his journalism career sans a high school, much less a college diploma when he was 19, as a rookie reporter for a Springfield, Mass., newspaper, and soon found himself producing radio shows featuring poetry, essays, and plays at a nearby radio station.
Corwin was raised in a traditional Jewish home in Boston, but didn’t discover a profound connection to the Jewish religion until his adult life, having dropped out of Hebrew school before his bar mitzvah.
www.juf.org /news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=3183   (1520 words)

  
 Crazy Dog Audio Theatre- An interview with Norman Corwin
Norman Corwin was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993.
CORWIN: I think that a good story well told is very important to any medium, but especially to radio, television and film, because one is at the mercy of a fingertip, of a remote control.
CORWIN: Well, in radio, the task of hooking the audience is more difficult that it is in a visual medium because the eye is satisfied with movement.
www.crazydogaudiotheatre.com /corwin.php   (4742 words)

  
 Norman Corwin at the Lodestone Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the 1940's, Norman Corwin was the premiere writer and producer of radio theater, creating some of the most important programs of the time.
We are honored by Corwin's choice of Lodestone as his audio publisher, and immensely privileged to know and work with one of the nicest, most thoroughly decent human beings on the planet.
Corwin answers the question of a convention of audio dramatists at the 1997 and 1998 Midwest Radio Theater Workshops.
www.lodestone-media.com /corwin.html   (879 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Norman Corwin, Writer
Norman Corwin is often called “Radio’s poet laureate.”
Corwin created the special V-E Day broadcast On a Note of Triumph, which Carl Sandburg called “one of the all-time great American poems.” Three months later, he wrote 14 August, a V-J Day documentary narrated by Orson Welles.
Corwin left CBS in 1948 and produced a series of programs for United Nations Radio.
www.radiohof.org /adventuredrama/normancorwin.html   (228 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Norman Corwin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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See also: Golden Age of Radio Old-Time Radio (OTR) or The Golden Age of Radio is a term used to refer to radio programs that were broadcast during the 1920s through the late 1950s (with some outlying programs produced earlier and later) in the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and Canada and...
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 Norman Corwin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corwin was a major figure in during the Golden Age ofRadio.
Corwin has won the One WorldAward, two Peabody Medals,an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a duPont-Columbia Award ; he was nominated for an Oscar for best writing for Lust for Life (1956).
According to Ray Bradbury, Corwin was responsible for theeventual publication of Bradbury's The MartianChronicles.
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 Current Online | Public radio's Corwin revival
Corwin's reverence for the power of words, his scrupulous attention to sound and detail extracted the best from the medium and appealed to the best instincts of his listeners.
Corwin learned of the decision from none other than the head of the network, William Paley, the man who had created a small niche for quality within commercial radio.
Corwin, who once adjured us to "do a little civil thinking every day,'' belongs on public radio, that lone outpost of civility in a bleak wilderness of screaming and shouting, 800 talk numbers and reverb boxes.
www.current.org /rad/rad601c.html   (1603 words)

  
 The Transom Review: Norman Corwin's Topic
Many of us were not yet conceived when Norman CorwinÕs words reverberated through the air, carrying the weight of their time, and hope for the future.
CorwinÕs text, then by hearing his voice, I was immediately connected with a certain Yankee sound and sensibility (and I mean that with all respect), that I don't really hear any more.
Norman Corwin tells me that radio, by removing the body, allows the soul to inform the brain and be heard as voice.
www.transom.org /guests/review/200112.review.ncorwin.html   (7799 words)

  
 Bard of the Golden Age
Suddenly, Corwin was a reporter for a small-town paper in Massachusetts.
In his poetry show, Corwin found a winning format, one which he would repeat several years later at a station in New York (under the name Poetic License) and then at the Columbia network CBS.
Corwin played on the imagination of the reader - zooming from location to location and engaging in fantastical adventures.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V139/N24/01-bard.24c.html   (1388 words)

  
 Transom Talk: Special Guests: Norman Corwin
Norman Corwin narrating "One World Flight" series, 1947.
Norman Corwin is the author of 17 books, five stage plays, and numerous movie and TV works.
Corwin teaches at the University of Southern California.
www.transom.org /guests/specialguests/normancorwin.html   (151 words)

  
 Norman Corwin Collection OTR MP3 List   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In May of 1945, Corwin produced On a Note of Triumph, which many consider "one of the all-time great American poems." The poem was so widely spread that three months later, Orson Welles narrated 14 August, a V-J Day documentary.In 1948, Corwin left to write and produce a series for United Nations Radio.
Norman Corwin's philanthropic contributions during the Second World War allowed him to be the beneficiary of two Peabody Medals, an Oscar Nomination, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Du-Pont Columbia Award, and the prestigious One World Award.
In 1993, Corwin was finally inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame, where he will be immortalized for his work for generations to come.
www.otrcat.com /corwin.htm   (413 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Norman Corwin
Throughout the 1940s,; Norman Corwin elevated the fledgling medium of live broadcast radio theatre to its artistic zenith in America.
Born May 3, 1910,; in Boston,; Massachusetts,; Norman Lewis Corwin was the third of four children in a Jewish Russian-Hungarian family.
In Germany, in the shadow of World War I, Corwin reflected on the senselessness of war, the ethnic hatred growing in the Weimar Republic, and the political pessimism spreading into adjacent nations.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200253   (920 words)

  
 Empire of the Air . The Romance of Radio | PBS
"What it did was to annihilate borders," states Norman Corwin, the author and producer of many of the greatest broadcasts in the history of radio.
Corwin's career evolved into a smorgasbord of media.
The author of 17 published books, Corwin has written and directed stage plays, TV dramas, cantatas, a libretto -- and wrote the screenplay for "Lust for Life" which won Anthony Quinn an Oscar.
www.pbs.org /kenburns/empire/radio   (668 words)

  
 Westways Magazine - Archived Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corwin thought my play also deserved first prize, he dug into his own pocket and gave me $100 too.
My introduction to Norman Corwin came by way of "On a Note of Triumph," that extraordinary broadcast the night World War II ended in Europe.
I was a teenager, and the powerful imagery of Corwin's writing made a profound impression on me. I even obtained a copy of the manuscript.
www.aaa-calif.com /westways/0999/letters.asp   (740 words)

  
 norman corwin senior success ucla age icon lifestyle demko ageventure   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Corwin was selected for his outstanding contributions to society and active life that exemplifies the UCLA's Center on Aging's motto of "living better longer." John Lehrer, Westways Magazine editor and friend to Mr.
Norman Corwin is considered by many to be the world's preeminent director, writer, and producer of the Golden Age of Radio.
Corwin is also the author of 17 books, five stage plays, and numerous movie and TV works.
www.demko.com /cs010609.htm   (513 words)

  
 Lost and Found Sound: The Stories
Writer/Director Norman Corwin is considered by many observers to be the world's foremost writer in the Golden Age of Radio where he rose to the pinnacle as he "survived ten years in radio without ever having or needing a sponsor." His prodigious wartime contribution culminated in the classic "On a Note of Triumph".
Corwin has been producing dramatic specials for National Public Radio, "More by Corwin", since 1995 which debuted with the production of the Columbia duPont-award winning "Fifty Years After 14 August," narrated by Charles Kuralt.
Norman Corwin directing Charles Laughton in "To Tim at Twenty," 1940.
www.npr.org /programs/lnfsound/stories/990813.onair2.html   (249 words)

  
 Crazy Dog Audio Theatre- Interviews
NORMAN CORWIN is the premiere writer and producer of radio theatre in America’s ‘Golden Age’ of radio, creating some of the most important programs such as The Columbia Workshop.
Corwin wrote for and directed such talents as Orson Welles, Groucho Marx and Jimmy Stewart.
Corwin has won two Peabody Medals, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination for his script of Lust For Life.
crazydogaudiotheatre.com /interviews.php   (370 words)

  
 JMSSez
From: Jms at B5 "Corwin is the main character in Zelazny's Amber series.) Not that David Corwin is very Corwin of Amber-like.
And Corwin's character is still very much alive, and useful in the story, so that kinda disqualifies *that*.
Corwin's question is really one that hits a lot; you see things starting to fly apart, but you keep thinking it's gonna work out..then it all goes to hell, and you're standing there trying to figure out how it all slipped away.
www.mjc.utvinternet.com /JMSonCorwin.htm   (863 words)

  
 Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio
Lauded as the “poet laureate of radio,” Norman Corwin is widely credited with creating some of the most important radio programs of the mid-twentieth century.
Corwin has garnered every major American award for his work and in 1993 was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Corwin returned to radio in the 1990’s, working with National Public Radio to rebroadcast past work and to create new programs including a series of radio plays in 2001 caIled More by Corwin.
www.thirdcoastfestival.org /annual_competitions_lifetime_winners_bios.asp   (1409 words)

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