I.B. Singer, a Polish-American novelist wrote: "Every writer must have an address, a place where his soul lives." Certainly my address was created not only by the people I encountered, but by the books impacting my mind, the teachers mentoring me, and the friends and family encouraging my struggle to be whatever I might possibly become.
On my thirteenth birthday I was given a Royal portable typewrite, keys to the interior Kingdom of my Mind. I soon became a prolific "hunt and peck" writer of school reports, letters to friends and family, and stories lost to all but memory. And so began a lifetime of discovering what I thought by writing. Finding words that not only expressed my thoughts, but revealed the emotions underlying them.
Writing is more than living.....it is enduring months of emotional and intellectual concentration; and it is the only way of living I have been interested in....rewarded by the surprise of discovering what I contain by an obsessive drive to pass along to others my intense feelings about what I have witnessed.
Norman Weissman
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A novel based on fact, dramatizing the Kent State Tragedy of May 4th 1970.
About Norman
- Norman Weissman
- After a 42 year career as a writer-director of many award winning films and television programs, Norman Weissman has written two novels and a memoir. Determined to oppose the silence in which lies become history; the author makes his reply in art to tell of all that he has witnessed during more than half a century of filming at home and overseas.
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