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Elizabeth M. Norman

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Elizabeth "Beth" Norman was born in June 1951, the second of five daughters of two World War II veterans, John and Dorothy Dempsey. Her father served with the U.S. Army in Europe in 1944; her mother was in uniform with the U.S. Coast Guard. She grew up in Lyndhurst New Jersey. Elizabeth began her professional career as a registered nurse and worked in various trauma and intensive care units in New Jersey before turning to the study of history and writing. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University-Newark where she met and married Michael Norman in 1972. She earned her graduate and doctoral degrees from New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. She joined the tenured faculty there in 1998. She currently is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences where she teaches history, writing and research design. In 1990, Elizabeth published her first book, Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam 1965-1973, (University of Pennsylvania Press) which was based on her dissertation. She followed this with We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Women Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese (1999, Random House.) Both books are still in print. Her work on We Band of Angels led her to look at the larger story of the battle for Bataan and the Bataan Death March, an inquiry that led to Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath(2009, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). She has won a number of awards for her work, among them an Official Commendation from the Department of the Army, and a Certificate of Appreciation from the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. She has two grown sons, Joshua and Benjamin, and a daughter-in-law, Rachel Cahn Norman. For most of her adult life, Elizabeth has lived in Montclair N. J.

Selected Writings


 * Norman, M., Norman E.(2009) Tears In The Darkness: The Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath.New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. ISBN 9780374272609
 * Norman, M., Norman E. (Summer 2009). Surviving Bataan American Hertiage, Vol.59 (2), 56-62. http://www.americanheritage.com/
 * Norman, E. (2000). We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Atria Publishing. Hardcover, 1999, Random House, New York. ISBN 9780671787189
 * Norman, E. (1990). Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. In print, 2009. ISBN 9780671787189
 * Norman E. (2001). “The Nurses Captured on Bataan.” In Brian Lamb (Ed.). Booknotes, Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped Our Country New York: Public Affairs, 251-258. In print, 2009 ISBN:9780142002490
 * Norman, E., & Angell, D. (1999). Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of Australian Nurses. Nursing History Review, Vol. 7, 97-112.

Web Links


 * http://www.tearsinthedarkness.com
 * http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Elizabeth_Norman