George Leslie Norris (21 May 1921 – 6 April 2006), was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer.
He taught at academic institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University.
Norris is considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period, and his literary publications have won many prizes.
While publicly[1] the couple maintained that they had no children, Norris confided to close friends that they had one child who died in infancy.
Shortly after their marriage, Leslie was accepted at the City of Coventry Teacher Training College.
[4] He secured a job as a lecturer in 1958 at Bognor Regis College of Education[5] and later taught at the West Sussex Institute of Higher Learning.
He was so impacted by his experience teaching in America that he returned to England only to resign his principal lectureship at Bognor Regis.
[2]: 20 In 1983 Norris was invited to teach for six months at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, United States.
[2]: 21 Some of his documents, personal materials and letters are in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU.
[2]: 18 In addition to poems and short stories, Norris published translation, biographies, and reviews.
[1] His personal works deal with such themes as his Welsh home, his past, especially the pre-war period, his experiences as a teacher, nature, and the life of the instinct.