Only late in life, after a lengthy and unusual preparation, did Leslie Norris become an outstanding American Western writer and a master of the long poem. Since the publication of his first book of poetry, Tongue of Beauty, in 1943, Norris has...

When Leslie Norris, poet and storywriter, read Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" at the unveiling of the memorial to Thomas in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey on 1 March 1982, his gentle, mellifluous Welsh voice bore a strong resemblance to Thomas's own....

Robert S. Norris, an eighteen-year veteran with NRDC's nuclear program, has just released Racing for the Bomb (Steerforth Press, 722 pp., $40), an in-depth biography of Leslie R. Groves, the army general who oversaw the Manhattan Project. Some might think it's odd,...

Yoes, Sean Baltimore Afro-American 04-15-2000 Was Norris inevitable? "THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION I'VE EVER MADE..." With these words Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley introduced then Baltimore City Police Col. Ron Daniel as Commissioner of the beleaguered Baltimore City Police Department...