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Norman Alexander MacCaig (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English , is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity. [ 1 ]
Norman Williams (New Zealand cricketer) (1864-1928), New Zealand cricketer; Norman Williams (RAAF officer), Royal Australian Air Force officer; Norman Williams (politician), Vermont attorney and politician; Norman Williams (producer) (1918–2010), British actor and film producer; N. P. Williams (Norman Powell Williams), Anglo-Catholic theologian
Norman and Rose Lindsay c. 1920, photographed by Harold Cazneaux. Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843–1915) and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848–1932), daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams, Wesleyen missionary, from Creswick.
May 1—Norman has officially become the first city in Oklahoma with a poet laureate. University of Oklahoma professor Julie Ann Ward, Ph.D., was announced to the position during a poetry month ...
Norman Williams was a barrister, while his brother Maurice Williams was a full-time journalist and writer. [3]The brothers' writing collaboration began in 1934. In 1940 they succeeded Fred Melville as editors of the National Philatelic Society's journal The Stamp Lover which they edited until 1964.
Poet Laureate of Kentucky is a title awarded to a Kentucky poet by the state's Art Council. In 2013, the position was occupied by Frank X Walker, the first African-American to be so honored. [1] [2] The Poet Laureate position was established 1926 by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly. James T. Cotton Noe was the first laureate.
March 3 – Sir T. H. Parry-Williams (born 1887), Welsh poet, translator and academic March 22 – Stanley Young , 69 (born 1906 ), American poet, playwright, publisher and literary reviewer April 23 – Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , 35 (born 1940 ) German poet, killed in hit-and-run-accident in London
The death of Robin Williams silenced one of Hollywood's greatest and funniest voices.From sitcoms like "Mork and Mindy," to the touching and inspiring "Dead Poet's Society," Williams was an actor ...