2: Writer HOWARD NORMAN has been nominated for the National Book Award for his new novel "The Bird Artist" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). The book takes place in Newfoundland in 1911, and is about an artist who murders the town's lighthouse keeper. NORMAN is also the author of a short story collection and "The Northern Lights," a National Book Award Nominee in 1987.
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