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Biography Norah Dooley is a storyteller and children’ s author. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture books, Everybody Cooks Rice, Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Serves Soup and Everybody Brings Noodles, (Carolrhoda Books @ lernerbooks.com) are four titles in a series about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA. Norah has published 5 storytelling CDs and she has performed in schools, libraries and at teacher’s conferences. She has been a featured storyteller in the Christmas and Spring Revels in Cambridge and Boston MA, the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival. Norah has been presenting workshops and stories for people of all ages throughout New England and also in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Phoenix. In NOV 2011, she lectured and performed in Tokyo Japan at several universities and other venues.
Norah has published 6 spoken word CDs available at CDBaby including Music of Angels (1999), Stories Nobody Told Me “Italian” Folk tales (2002) and Stories from the Neighborhood, World Folk tales (2002), Rabbitales (2006) My Bad,Bad Dog and other Neighbors (2006) and Irish Folk Tales: Live @Passim (2008)
"Norah Dooley is an entrancing storyteller" - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe
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Thanks for the message Norah. I graduated Tufts '76 BA Music. Mostly intrigued by storytelling but as you know, everybody has a story or two to relate. Hope to catch a MM event soon.
Hey Norah! I hope you enjoyed cincinnati while you were here! it has a really great arts scene! I'm excited for my move to boston and to go to massmouth for the first time! I'm really lookin fwd to hearing you & the rest of the storytellers!
Sure..You can quote me!
Hi Norah -- thanks for connecting with me here on your site. Yes, it was good meeting you during First Night, too. I'm sorry I couldn't stick around longer to chat with you after the stories ended. I'm not really a storyteller myself... just one who enjoys hearing them and engaging in a littler banter around them ;-) If you ever want to spend a Friday evening in Hopkinton when I'm hosting a ZENMothra, you're always welcome as my guest!
Norah, I am greatly flattered! :) But the only thing I share with the Booker Prize winner is my last name. She has a tendency to generate polarized opinion these days and is quite famous/infamous (depending on your opinion) in India. Here's something I wrote about an essay she wrote: WARNING: It's very loooooooong. Firstly her essay of 8 pages (if you haven't read it already) and then mine... http://virtual-inksanity.blogspot.com/2010/05/walking-off-plank-with-comrades.html.
Thanks for getting us involved!
Take care,
Beth
Hi, Norah! Thanks for saying hello.
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