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![]() Robert W. Norris, Author of Expatriate and Antiwar Fiction Hello and welcome to my home page. Thanks for dropping by. I'm the author of three expatriate and antiwar novels, a novella used as a textbook in Japanese universities, and several articles on teaching English as a foreign language. I'm retired now, but spent 24 years teaching at the college and university level in Japan. I've recently completed a new nonfiction book titled The
Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Pentimento
Memories of Mom and Me. It's about my life story
and my relationship with my greatest supporter—my
mother, who died just four days short of her 95th
birthday in 2021. The book explores the separate life
paths we experienced, our searches for identity, and our
unbreakable bond. The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise:
Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me has been
accepted for publication by Tin Gate, a hybrid publisher
of memoirs, travel books, and biographies. Michael
Cannings, the publisher of Camphor Press
(which focuses on books in English about Taiwan and East
Asia), is just now setting Tin Gate up in the U.K. and
my book will be his first one. It's scheduled to be
ready for print by the end of 2022. More details can be
found by clicking on the title in the menu bar on the
left side of this page. My other books were published by indie presses between
1995 and 2006. Those publishers eventually closed their
doors, returning all rights to me. I opted to keep the
books alive by republishing them myself. They're still
available at any Amazon site or through Lulu.com. Just
click on the links provided for each title in the
"Novels" section in the menu. For e-book versions, I
hope to have most of these earlier books up on
Draft2Digital by the end of May 2022. Those links will
also appear in the "Novels" section. My third novel, Autumn Shadows in August, is modeled roughly on Malcolm Lowry's Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid. It's an hallucinogenic mid-life crisis/adventure story, as well as homage to Lowry and Hermann Hesse. My second novel, Toraware, is a psychological drama about the obsessive relationship of three misfits from different cultural backgrounds in 1980s Kobe, Japan. Both Autumn Shadows in August and Toraware were nominated for Dan Poynter's 2012 Global eBook Awards in the multicultural literature category. Autumn Shadows in August was selected as a finalist. Looking for the Summer, my first novel, tells
the
story of a Vietnam War conscientious objector's
adventures and search for identity on the road from
Paris to Calcutta in 1977. The Many Roads to Japan,
my novella/ESL reader, is about a conscientious
objector's many twists and turns in his life journey
before coming to Japan. Robert W. Norris |