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Ollestad, Norman

LC control no.n 2008084348
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LC classificationPS3615.L5885
Personal name headingOllestad, Norman
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LocatedVenice (Calif.)
AffiliationUniversity of California at Los Angeles
Special noteDo not confuse with his father: Ollestad, Norman, 1935-1979
Found inHis Crazy for the storm, c2009: ECIP t.p. (Norman Ollestad) data view (age 41; surfer and competitive downhill skier at young age; in 1979 survived plane crash; studied creative writing at UCLA and graduated from UCLA Film School; lives in Venice, Calif.)
His French girl with mother, 2016: ECIP t.p. (Norman Ollestad)
Amazon.com website, viewed Nov. 17, 2016: under title French girl with mother (Norman Ollestad is the author of the 2009 bestseller Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival. Ollestad's writing has received extraordinary praise from The New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, and has won admiration from esteemed voices including Russell Banks, Jim Harrison, Susan Cheever, and Carolyn See, and invited comparisons to Tobias Wolff and Jon Krakauer)