William Norwich is a writer, editor, and video and television reporter. He is the author of the novels MY MRS. BROWN and LEARNING TO DRIVE, as well as the children’s book MOLLY AND THE MAGIC DRESS. Norwich also has written introductions and essays for many pictorial books. Currently the editor for fashion and interior design at Phaidon Press, he has also written and edited for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Town & Country, Architectural Digest and New York magazine. Norwich is a graduate of the writing program at Columbia University (MFA), Hampshire College (BA) and the Pomfret School. He lives in New York City.

Books by William Norwich

My Mrs. Brown

by William Norwich - Fiction

Emilia Brown has spent a frugal, useful and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a small town in Rhode Island. She makes a modest living cleaning and running errands at the local beauty parlor. When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a dress that changes everything. It’s a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta sheath and jacket --- a suit that Mrs. Brown realizes, with startling clarity, will say everything she has ever wished to convey. She must have it. And so she begins her odyssey to purchase it.