Curtis B. Norris papers (Ms.2010.034)

Biographical note

Curtis B. Norris was born in 1927 as the son of Lowell and Helen Curtis Norris. Both parents wrote, and Lowell was a prolific writer of detective stories. Curtis served in the Philippine Islands during WWII, where he survived the Death March and imprisonment at Camp O’Donnell. He graduated from Middlebury College and later earned a masters degree in English. He was a non-fiction mystery writer and newspaper columnist, eventually writing 14 books, and worked in the public affairs departments of Brown University and Stonehill College. He died in 2002.