Norman H. Sims

Nonfiction writing, newswriting, freedom of the press, journalism history, literary journalism

Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois

108C Bartlett Hall,
413-545-5929
sims@journ.umass.edu [1]

Norman Sims is a professor of Journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the editor of The Literary Journalists (1984) and Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century (1990), and the co-editor with Mark Kramer of Literary Journalism (1995). In fall 2007 his new book, True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism, will be published by Northwestern University Press. He teaches Freedom of the Press, History of American Journalism, Literary Journalism, Introduction to Nonfiction Writing, and Newswriting. He is the principal investigator for two major grant-funded projects, the Media Giraffe Project [2] and the New England News Forum. VIEW PROFILE [3]