Norman Green reports this about himself:

"A biography? As that great philosopher John McEnroe once said, ‘you can’t be serious.’ It’s the books I want you to be interested in, not me…

All right, enough evasion. I am your basic American mongrel, son of a father who seemed happiest when he was behind the wheel of a U-Haul truck. I was born in Massachusetts and grew up in various parts of New England. I went to high school in the late sixties and early seventies, learned mostly that I didn’t like school. I must have inherited some of my father’s gypsy spirit, because I left home shortly after school with little idea of who I was or where I was going.

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