Norma Klein (May 13, 1938-April 25 1989) was an American author. She was born, grew up and lived in New York City for most of her life. She died after a brief illness in New York City. She wrote many popular novels for children and young adults including Family Secrets a novel that is currently number eighty-one on the list of most challenged books 1990–2000. Her most popular novel was Mom, the Wolfman, and Me.
Her books include:
Picture Books
- Blue Trees, Red Sky
- Dinosaur’s Housewarming Party
- Girls Can Be Anything
- If I Had My Way
- Naomi in the Middle
- A Train for Jane
- Visiting Pamela
- Chasing Amy
Adult books
- Beginners’ Love
- Coming to Life
- Domestic Arrangements
- Girls Turn Wives
- Give Me One Good Reason
- It’s Okay If you Don’t Love Me
- Love and Other Euphemisms (short stories)
- Love Is One of the Choices
- Sextet in A Minor (short stories)
- Sunshine
- Wives and Other Women
