Warren Carl Norwood (August 21, 1945 – June 3, 2005) was an American science fiction novelist, teacher, and musician.
Norwood was a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americaand was the author of 14 science fiction novels, most of them written during the 1980s.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Warren received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Army Commendation Medal.
Vietnam, May 16, 1967
I was serving in Viet Nam in the U.S. Army in May, 1967, and sought refuge in a small Buddhist Temple in Bien Hoa. I am told it no longer exists. I did not know it at the time, but I was already a Buddhist then. All I knew was that in that temple I found the only peace I could find from the war.
Upon his untimely death, his manuscripts and papers, consisting of 53 boxes of material, were transferred to the University of North Texas Special Collections department in Denton.
Norwood died of liver disease and kidney failure in Weatherford, Texas on Friday, June 3, 2005 at the age of 59.