Career
When not writing, he was a longtime employee of Craig"s Music in Weatherford, Texas. Norwood also taught writing at Weatherford College and Tarrant County College. Upon his untimely death, his manuscripts and papers, consisting of 53 boxes of material, were transferred to the University of North Texas Special Collections department in Denton.
Norwood died of liver disease and kidney failure in Weatherford, Texas on Friday, June 3, 2005 at the age of 59.