Norman German
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Location | Lake Charles, LA, United States |
| Introduction | Dr. German has degrees in history/pre-law, philosophy, and English from McNeese State, the University of Texas, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A specialist in twentieth-century American literature, he has also published award-winning short stories, novels, poems, and literary criticism. Ernest Gaines awarded his novel No Other World first prize in the 1992 Deep South Writers Contest. The work fictionalizes the life of Coincoin, the ex-slave who became a slaveholder and founded Melrose Plantation, near Natchitoches. Reviewed as "a work of exceptional literary merit," his third novel, A Savage Wisdom, based on the life of the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair, was published in August of 2008. As a Kindle book on Amazon.com, the novel has reached #6 in the competitive True Crime category. |
| Interests | running, weightlifting, fishing, house renovation, coin collecting |
| Favorite Music | The Beatles |
| Favorite Books | As I Lay Dying, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, In Cold Blood, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Walden |
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