Faculty

Elizabeth M. Norman

Professor

Elizabeth M. Norman

Phone: 212-998-5412
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Presentations

  • 2010 Select Presentations
    Vail Symposium, Vail Colorado
  • 2009 Select Presentations
    November 2009. New York. New York University, Student Resource Center and Veterans Alliance November 2009. New York. J.P. Morgan Private Equity Group. New York October 2009. Nashville, Tennessee. Southern Festival of Books. October 2009. Newark, New Jersey. Rutgers University, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. October 2009. Baltimore, Maryland. New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association. September 2009. Chicago, Illinois. Pritzker Military Library September 2009. Norfolk, Virginia. MacArthur Memorial and Museum. July 2009. Billings, Montana. Montana State University. June 2009. Washington D.C. Library of Congress, Philippine Embassy Asian Veterans Groups,

Media Activities

Tears in the Darkness: Select book reviews:

April-May  2009: Publishers Weekly; Booklist; Kirkus Reviews; Library Journal

            June-July 2009: Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute Press; Billings Gazette, Billings MT, Philippine Inquirer; SI.COM, “Monday Morning QB.”; Associated Press; New York Times (Dwight Garner); Christian Science Monitor; California Literary Review

            September-October 2009: Publishers Weekly;History News Network; Military History

            November 2009: Army Magazine; The Washington Times

            January  2010, The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ

 

Select  Radio, Television Appearances:

            June-July  2009: WAMU (NPR) radio (Diane Rehm), Washington, DC; MSNBC television, “Morning Joe,” New York, NY; WABC radio (“Imus In The Morning”), New York, NY; KCUR (NPR) radio Kansas City, MO;WNYC (NPR) radio (Leonard Lopate), New York, NY; KHNC radio, Johnstown, CO; WMJI radio, Cleveland, OH

            August-October 2009: WABC radio, New York, NY; WHJJ radio, Providence, RI;WDBO radio, Orlando, FL; WHAD radio, Milwaukee, WI; WGN radio, Chicago, IL;WNPT public television, Nashville, TN

 

 

Tears in the Darkness

The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath

A new book by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman

Here is the story of the worst defeat in American military history, the four-month fight for the tiny peninsula of Bataan in the Philippine Islands - the first major land battle for America in World War II. On April 9, 1942, more than 76,000 men under American command surrendered to their Japanese captors, who set them walking sixty-six miles to prison camp, a notorious walk that came to be known as "The Bataan Death March."

"Tears In the Darkness" is history written as story, thousands of sources and hundreds of interviews carefully woven into a tight narrative that recreates those dramatic days and the men - Americans, Japanese and Filipinos - who lived them.

Buy Tears in the Darkness

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. New York University:School of Education, Nursing, Arts and Health Professions 1986
    Dissertation: “Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.”
  • M.A. New York University:School of Education, Nursing, Arts and Health Professions 1977
  • B.S. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 1973

Awards

  • 2009 : New York Times best-seller list, eight weeks; Publishers Weekly bestseller and “summer breakout book.”; New York Times book critic Dwight Garner’s top ten non-fiction books of 2009; Amazon.com Editor’s Top 100 Books of 2009; Amazon.com Editor’s Top 10 History books of 2009; Christian Science Monitor best nonfiction books of 2009; American Library Association 2010 Notable Books For Adult Readers, non-fiction
  • 2009 : Philippine Embassy Washington D.C. Certificate of Appreciation.
  • 2004 : Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Hall of Distinguished Alumni Award.
  • 2003 : University of California San Francisco, Commencement Speaker.
  • 2001 : Indiana State University, Distinguished Lecturer, Terra Haute, Indiana.
  • 2001 : AACN. Seventh Annual John P. McGovern Award
  • 2001 : University of Virginia. Eighth Annual Agnes Dillon Award.
  • 1999 : Lavinia L. Dock Award for Outstanding Historical Scholarship. AAHN.
  • 1999 : AAN. National Media Award.
  • 1995 : International Public Print Media Award, Sigma Theta Tau.
  • 1993 : Certificate of Appreciation. New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
  • 1992 : Book of the Year. American Journal of Nursing
  • 1990 : Official Commendation for Military Nursing Research. Department of the Army.

Publications

  • Curriculum Vitae (view)
  • Norman M., & Norman E. (2010) Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath. New York: Picador Books . (2010). Tears in the Darkness. Beijing, China: Fonghong Media, in cooperation with Jiangsu People's Publishing House. Translation (2010). Tears in the Darkness. Tokyo, Japan : Kawade Shobo. Translation. (2010). Tears in the Darkness. Czech: Jota Publishers. Translation.
  • Norman, M., Norman E., Tears In The Darkness: The Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath.New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. June 2009.
  • 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. In print 2009.
  • Norman, E. (1990). Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. In print, 2009.
  • 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
  • Norman, E. (2006). "The Challenge of Historical Research." In Geri Lo-Biondo-Wood & Judi Haber (Eds.)Research Methods, Critical Appraisal and Utilization. Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania: C.V. Mosby, 436-437.
  • Norman, E., & Angell, D. (1999). Vivian Bullwinkel: Sole Survivor of the 1942 Massacre of Australian Nurses. NHR 7, 97-112.
  • Norman, E., & Eifried, S. (1995). How Did They All Survive? An Analysis of American Nurses' Experiences in Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps. NHR, 3, 105-127.
  • Norman, E. (1995). After the Casualties: The Effect of Working in the Vietnam War on Nurses' Professional Identity and Career Decisions. The Journal of Military Nursing and Research, 1 (3), 25-29.
  • dePaula Lima, E., Norman, E., & dePaula Lima A. (2005). Translation and Adaptation of the Social Support Network Inventory in Brazil. JNS, 37(3), 258-260.

Research Interests

  • Public medicine
  • Bellevue Hospital Center
  • historical inquiry
  • qualitative methodologies
  • women in the military
  • prisoners of war

Courses

  • E10.2140.002 Approaches to Qualitative Research
  • E33.2190. Research Methods (qualitative)
  • E10.2138 Writing Empiric Research
  • E10.3001 Dissertation Proposal Seminar