Gregory T. Norrell

Background

Gregory T. Norrell was born on November 24, 1960, in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. He is a son of L. N. Norrell, a university professor of English, and M. G. Norrell, a teacher.

Education

Gregory T. Norrell received a Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of West Georgia (currently University of West Georgia) in 1985. Four years later, it was followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the State University of New York at Albany.

Career

Gregory T. Norrell started his career at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls as scientist and writer in 1992. After serving three years in that capacity, Norrell joined Dandelion Press and Dandelion Media as an author and publisher. Later, he became an owner of Dandelion Studios, a recording division of Dandelion Multimedia.

He wrote his first novel after he became irritated with Sartre’s Existentialism and Human Emotions. Norrell thought the philosopher’s thesis was pompous and unrealistic.

Achievements

• As an accomplished author and poet, Gregory T. Norrell has been featured in International Who's Who of Authors and Writers and in International Who's Who in Poetry.
  
  He was a founder of Web Poets Society.

Works

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  • 95 Windows: An Unofficial Poetry Collection from the Microsoft Network 1997

Views

Gregory T. Norrell thinks that poetry is inspired by emotions, either his own or those he can temporarily ‘borrow’ from others, through others’ poetry, fiction, or music.

Quotations: "My motivation for writing is preservation of sanity, at least to a limited degree. Invariably, I understand something better after writing about it."

Membership

Gregory T. Norrell has been a member of the Academy of American Poets, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Mu Epsilon, and Sigma Xi.

Interests

• Writers

  John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut

Connections

Gregory T. Norrell married a woman named Karen in 1980. The family produced two children, Catherine Leigh, and Michael Alexander.

Gregory and Karen divorced in 1995.

Father:

L. N. Norrell

Mother:

M. G. Norrell

ex-spouse:

Karen Norrell

Daughter:

Catherine Leigh Norrell

Son:

Michael Alexander Norrell