Norbert Blei

Norbert Blei (1935-2013) is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for fiction and the author of seventeen books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including Meditations on a Small Lake , Door Steps , and his "Chicago Trilogy" Neighborhood , Chi Town , and The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog . Born and raised in Chicago, he wrote for the City News Bureau before moving in 1969 to Door County, Wisconsin, where he became writer-in-residence at the Clearing Folk School. He was also the founder and publisher...See more

Norbert Blei (1935-2013) is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for fiction and the author of seventeen books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including Meditations on a Small Lake , Door Steps , and his "Chicago Trilogy" Neighborhood , Chi Town , and The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog . Born and raised in Chicago, he wrote for the City News Bureau before moving in 1969 to Door County, Wisconsin, where he became writer-in-residence at the Clearing Folk School. He was also the founder and publisher of the small literary press Cross+Roads Press. See less