Norman Fiering

Norman Fiering (born 1935 New York City) is an American historian, and Director and Librarian, Emeritus, of the John Carter Brown Library.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1956, where he was a student of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in 1969.

He taught at Stanford University between 1964 and 1969, and was a post-doctoral fellow for three years at the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1969-1972. In 1972 he was appointed Editor of Publications at the Institute. From 1983 to 2006, he was Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship
• 1975-76 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• 1978-79 National Humanities Center Fellowship in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
• 1983 Merle Curti Award