Kathleen Norris. Courtesy Kingdom Poets.
Kathleen Norris (born July 27, 1947) is a best-selling American poet and essayist.[1] [2]
Life[]
Norris was born in Washington, D.C. Her parents, John Norris and Lois Totten, took her as a child to Hawaii, where she graduated from Punahou Preparatory School in 1965. Like another graduate of the same school, President Barack Obama (class of 1979),[3] she reminiscences about a sense of alienation felt during the formative teen years.[4]
After graduating from Bennington College in Vermont in 1969, Norris became arts administrator of the Academy of American Poets, and published her debut book of poetry 2 years later.[5]
In 1974 she inherited her grandparents' farm in Lemmon, South Dakota, moved there with her husband, David Dwyer, joined Spencer Memorial Presbyterian church, and discovered the spirituality of the Great Plains.[6]
She entered a new, non-fictional phase in her literary career after becoming a Benedictine oblate at Assumption Abbey Richardton ND in 1986, and spending extended periods at Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.[7]
Since the death of her husband in 2003, Norris has transferred her place of residence to Hawaii, though continuing to do lecture tours on the mainland.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Falling Off. Chicago: Big Table, 1971.
- The Middle of the World. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
- The Year of Common Things: Poems. Denver, CO: Wayland Presss, 1988.
- Little Girls in Church. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
- Journey: New and selected poems, 1969-1999. Pittburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.
Non-Fiction[]
- Dakota: A spiritual geography. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.
- The Cloister Walk. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.
- The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, liturgy and "women's work". New York: Paulist Press, 1998.
- Meditations on Mary. New York: Viking Studio, 1999.
- Amazing Grace: A vocabulary of faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
- The Virgin of Bennington. New York: Riverhead Books, 2001.
- The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica. New York: Putnam, 2001.
- Acedia and Me: Marriage, monks, and a writer's life. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008
- published in UK as The Noonday Demon: A modern woman's struggle with soulweariness. Oxford, UK: Lion, 2009.
- 40-Day Journey with Katherine Norris (edited by Kathryn Haueisen). Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Books, 2008.
- Embracing a Life of Meaning: Kathleen Norris on discovering what matters (with Tim Scorer). Denver, CO : Morehouse Education Resources, 2012.
Edited[]
- The Psalms (with commentary by Norris). New York: Riverhead Books (Sacred Text series), 2007.
Kathleen Norris "Too Close For Comfort Engaging The Psalms"
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[8]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Kathleen Norris, Steven Barclay Agency
- ↑ http://community.tncc.edu/faculty/longt/e273/kathleen_norris.htm
- ↑ Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A story of race and inheritance, Times Books, 1995. Print?
- ↑ Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life, Riverhead Books, 2008, pp.7-9.
- ↑ Kathleen Norris, Falling Off, Big Table Publishing Company, 1971.
- ↑ Kathleen Norris, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, 1993.
- ↑ Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk, Riverhead Books, 1996.
- ↑ Search results = au:Kathleen Norris 1947, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 28, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Kathleen Norris at Amazon.com
- Works by or about Kathleen Norris (poet) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Audio / video
- About
- A Spiritual Walk with Kathleen Norris, interview, 2008
- Interview with Kathleen Norris, 2011
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