Born and raised in Chicago, Norman Weeks studied in Rome, earned his degree in history, then settled into a Roman residence. With Rome as a base, he traveled in fifteen European countries, including those of the old Soviet bloc. His interest in ancient cultures led him on archaeological itineraries throughout the Mediterranean.
Back in the Americas, he served two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil, then ventured into Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. He has guided wilderness excursions in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters.
In Asia, he immersed himself in the Buddhist cultures of Thailand, India, and Nepal.
Norman Weeks is an experiential writer. He writes about living in Nature and within a culture. Of the former, NATURE NORM'S NORTH WOODS relates his experiences in the woods-and-waters of the northland, while TROPICAL ECSTASY explores the Amazon and the northeast of Brazil. Of culture, he ventures into one of the oldest civilizations in TWO WEEKS IN ETERNAL EGYPT. Culture-versus-Nature is a principal theme of WALDEN CONTEMPORANEOUS.
ROMAN RUMINATIONS presents "the psychology of the human as an enculturated animal". Its three volumes are LONELINESS, INSTINCT, and LOVE.
Throughout his various writings, Norman Weeks expresses a cosmopolitan appreciation of our world.
