Norman Corwin is a Bostonian who at 17 started on a course which led him
ultimately into almost all of the media. For ten years a newspaperman,
he then moved into radio and served as a writer-director-producer for
CBS in the heyday of that network's glory with such memorable series as
26 by Corbin, Columbia Presents Corwin, and such milestones in
broadcasting as the four-network We Hold These Truths, and On a Note of
Triumph> Corwin has written and directed stage plays, radio dramas and
three cantatas, one of which was performed in the General Assembly Hall
of the United Nations. He wrote the screenplay for Lust for Life, which
won him a Golden Globes Award and Academy nomination, and brought
Anthony Quinn an Oscar for his performance as Gauguin. Corwin's oral
history, Years of the Electric Ear, conducted by Douglas Bell for the
Director's Guild of America and a foreword by Charles Champlin, is
especially notable for its unique critical and historical perspective on
the rise of radio drama as an entertainment art form. Also of value to
researchers are the appendixes listing Corwin's extensive body of work
by date and medium. Corwin has received 24 major awards in media and the
humanities, and in 1993 was enrolled in the Radio Hall of Fame. Author
of 19 published books, five produced stage plays, and numerous movie and
TV works, his professional and academic credits include lectureships at
five major universities. He was a member of the Board of Governors and
First Vice-President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.
