Norman Lock
Writer, Creative Strategist, Account Executive
Norman was an editor, advertising production manager, and design director for a trade magazine from 1975-1982. Since then, he has been a writer, creative director, and account executive for advertising agencies in Millville, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, and New York City. He writes for all media: print, radio, TV, film, CD, and web. He has worked on more than 70 national and international business-to-business and consumer accounts in the aviation, financial, boating, health care, power generation, real estate, engineering and transportation industries.
Norman has written stage plays performed in New York, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, and in other American cities. One play was voted among the year’s 10 best by the Los Angeles Times in 1988 and, for its revival, in 1994. It was called the best play at the 1996 Edinburgh Theatre Festival. It was published by Broadway Play Publishing Company and, in German, by Per Lauke Verlag, Munich.
It played in London, South Africa, and in several major German cities. Norman co-wrote its film adaptation in 1998. Four of his radio plays have been broadcast by Germany’s largest radio station, WDR. A short film, produced by The American Film Institute, was shown at international film festivals. In 1991 he was a finalist for the American Express & The Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays.
Norman’s fiction has been published in more than 50 leading American, Australian, Canadian, European, and South American reviews. A novella appeared in 2003 to critical acclaim. A novel was published in Germany and will be brought out by an American publisher in 2004. A book of short fiction is being translated into Turkish for publication in Istanbul in 2004. His work has also been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Dutch. In 1979 he received one of America’s highest literary awards for short fiction: the Aga Khan Prize given by The Paris Review and endowed by Ali Khan and Rita Hayworth. In 1999 he was awarded a fellowship from the New Jersey Council of the Arts. Experimental visual work was exhibited by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 1978.
He taught literature and creative writing in a state and a federal prison from 1991-2002. In 1992 he was named adjunct instructor of the year by Cumberland County College, NJ. In 1999 he received a fellowship from the New Jersey Arts Council for his prose fiction.
Norman is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania (BA, distinguished, magna cum laude) and Syracuse University (MA/MFA, cum laude). He attended St. Joseph’s University (education) and The Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism.
