Norman M. Klein

Norman M. Klein (born 1945) is an American urban and media historian, as well as an author of fictional works. In 2011, the ''Los Angeles Times'' put Klein's 1997 book ''The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory'' on its "Best L.A. Books" list.

Since 1974, Klein has been a professor in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he is on the faculty of both the Master's Program in Aesthetics and Politics and the Center for Integrated Media.

As layered systems that resemble certain genres of games and other media narrative formats, Klein's novels primarily offer literary alternatives. Having coined the term "scripted space" in 1998, Klein (with Margo Bistis) coined "''Wunder roman''" in 2012 to characterize a particular kind of picaresque novel whose parts function as a narrative engine.

In 2004, the Beall Center for Art and Technology organized a retrospective of Klein's work. Provided by Wikipedia