Newton, Norman

NEWTON, Norman, writer, radio producer, actor, playwright (b 1929, Vancouver). He worked for many years in VANCOUVER as a producer for CBC Radio when it was a centre of literary culture in the province. Along with many radio plays he wrote 3 novels—The House of Gods (1961) about the Aztecs; The One True Man (1963), also set in Mexico; and The Big Stuffed Hand of Friendship (1969), a satire on aboriginal–European relations in small-town BC. He also published a non-fiction book about the...

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