JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY, April 02, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Norman Stock with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Mr. Stock celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Having accrued more than four decades of excellence in the field of literature, Mr. Stock has garnered a laudable reputation as an exemplary writer and retired librarian. Inspired by his father, a poet, the younger man attended Brooklyn College, from which he graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Stock earned a Master of Library Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in 1967, and completed his academic efforts at Hunter College with a Master of Arts in English in 1971.
From 1966 until 1967, Mr. Stock served as a reference librarian for Monmouth College. He maintained activity in a similar role for the Queens Borough Public Library in Jamaica, New York, in 1967, departing in 1973 to join Brooklyn College. Mr. Stock remained affiliated with Brooklyn College until 1976. He began his career with Montclair State University in 1976 as a reference librarian, rising to become the head of collection development and acquisitions in 1978. Mr. Stock continued his career as the head of acquisitions at Montclair until his retirement in 2005.
An accomplished poet, Mr. Stock is the author of two books of poetry: Pickled Dreams Naked (NYQ Books, 2010) and Buying Breakfast For My Kamikaze Pilot (Gibbs Smith, 1994, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Contest). His poems have also appeared in The New Republic, College English, The New York Quarterly, Verse, The New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies and textbooks. The recipient of awards from the Writer's Voice, Poets & Writers' Maureen Egen Writers Exchange, the Bennington Writing Workshops, and the Tanne Foundation, he has also been a Bread Loaf fellow, a Sewanee scholar, and a finalist for Poet Laureate of Queens.
Mr. Stock lives in Jackson Heights with his wife, Lydia Chang, a former clinical psychotherapist who is also a poet, and the author of the poetry book Silk Dress (Finishing Line Press, 2019).
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