Blei, Norbert

Norbert Blei is a veteran of the famous City News Bureau of Chicago, winner of a Pushcart Prize in fiction, the author of seventeen books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and the editor/publisher of a small press dedicated to emerging and neglected writers, Cross+Roads Press. Among his many works are the two other books in his Chicago Trilogy, "The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog" (Ellis, 1987) and "Neighborhood" (Ellis, 1998), and a collection of poems, "Paint Me a Picture/Make Me a Poem "(Spoon River, 1987). Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives in Door County, Wisconsin.