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Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio's Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s). Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life. His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional creativity and world crisis shaped its character and.

(1908–2003), travel writer and novelist, born in Enfield, north London. His novels of action and adventure include The

TO READ about the life of Norman Lewis, probably the greatest living travel writer, is to be struck by the utter unoriginality of one's own. It is not just the journeys -- though by page 25 of this memoir we have been introduced to Havana, Guatemala, and a ship full of Tadjiks returning to a postwar Soviet Union -- but the unorthodox households and bizarre encounters which become even more so when described in the author's seamlessly deadpan style. Lewis's Bloomsbury, inhabited by Sicilian in-laws who keep an owl in the dining room, is as fantastic as any tropical outpost. His principal villain, alluded to throughout the book and then addressed squarely in the penultimate chapter, is modern tourism, but one invariably gets the feeling that his real enemy -- a godsend for the stressed-out vacationer -- is the predictable. This distaste for normalcy applies even to literary forms, for as an autobiography The World, The World is even less revealing of its author than was its predecessor, Jackdaw Cake. In that engaging book, Lewis wrote of his childhood, dominated by eccentric Welsh aunts and spiritualist parents, and his wartime service in North Africa with the Intelligence Corps. This volume picks up the peripatetic life while all but ignoring the personal. Midway through there appears this uncharacteristically forthcoming announcement: \"It was about this time I learned through my solicitor that I had long since been divorced according to Mexican law and that my ex-wife had forthwith taken a husband. I therefore married Lesley, an old friend who had been helping me to organise my books.\" It is the last we hear of Lesley.

WHAT: Market value of American artist Norman Lewis (1909-1979) took a giant leap when his painting, \"Untitled,\" circa 1958, brought $965,000 in a recent record-breaking sale of works by African-American artists at Swann Galleries in New York. Pre-sale estimate was $250,000 to $350,000.

[Norman Lewis], who lived in another part of Oakland, was shot about 7:30 p.m. July 23 in the 1500 block of 80th Avenue near Alder Street. He died later at a hospital.

His account of Farol on the Costa Brava is a quirky masterpiece. [Norman Lewis] explains, \"I looked for the familiar in England but found change The Spain I returned to was still invested with its ancient virtues and ancient defects.\" In a limpid prose that stands alongside Waugh and Orwell, Lewis evokes a strange little society where the fishermen described their daily adventures in improvised poetry (\"There in the clarity of the water, alone, alone, I saw many lively ghosts\") while sipping acidic wine in a ghastly bar dominated by a mermaid, actually a mummified dugong.

As a child, I learned about the \"valley of the shadow of death\" from the 23rd Psalm. A similar image is conjured up by economists who talk about the \"valley of death.\" [Norman Lewis]' team is working to make poplars that are biochemical factories that produce rosy and high-value chemicals that could one day help the emerging cellulosic biofuel industry bridge the \"valley of death\" and make it to the promised land of economic profitability. Ultimately, fast-growing poplars might yield the highly valuable specialty chemicals as they grow, while the full-grown trees could later be broken down for cellulosic ethanol. \"I believe genetically engineered plants are important for sustainability and coping with climate change,\" Lewis said. \"That means that some people think I'm going against nature, even with overwhelming scientific evidence of their safety.\"