Author, director, composer and producer, educated in public schools. He
was a newspaperman for ten years, and then a writer, director and
producer for CBS in New York. He served as chief of Special Projects
for United Nations Radio, and was presented with a One World Award.
Joining ASCAP in 1952, his chief collaborators included Deems Taylor,
Bernard Rogers, Lyn Murray, and Maurice Goldman.
A documentary film on Corwin's life, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Feature) in 2006.
He was a lecturer in Journalism at the University of Southern California until he was 97.
N 1996, he received the Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from California Lutheran University.