Norman Ollestad Writer

Norman Ollestad (born May 30, 1967) is an American author. At the age of eleven, he was the only survivor of a plane crash that claimed the life of his father. He wrote about it in his 2009 bestseller Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival. He has also written a novel, Driftwood, which was released in 2006.

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Birth date	May 30, 1967

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influenced by	Ernest Hemingway Gustav Klimt Ingmar Bergman Pablo Picasso Cormac McCarthy Wayne Shorter Russell Banks Jim Harrison Richard Avedon Kelly Slater Bernardo Bertolucci Clint Eastwood Jean-Luc Godard Milan Kundera Woody Allen Helmut Newton Jhumpa Lahiri Thelonious Monk Van Morrison Mavis Gallant Gus Van Sant Lucian Freud Bob Dylan

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External resources

http://us.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/06/30/plane.crash.survivor.book/index.html
http://www.crazyforthestorm.com
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-norman-ollestad12-2009jun12,0,2872239.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/books/11masl.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104414.html