Norma M. Field is an author and emeritus professor of East Asian studies at the University of Chicago.
Her areas of expertise include: Japan, Literature: Modern Japanese, Feminism, Translation, Humanities.
Field was born in Tokyo, Japan shortly after the end of World War II to an American serviceman father and his Japanese wife.
She was raised in Tokyo attending school in the Washington Heights District.
After graduation, she moved to America, and received a BA from Pitzer College in European Studies.