Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933) is an American writer most of whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s.

[1] He won the U.S. National Book Award[2] and the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel Mating.

After working for fifteen years as a book dealer, he changed careers to become a teacher and found he had more time to write.

Rush and his wife Elsa were co-directors of the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983, which provided material for his short story collection Whites (1986).

Rush lives with his wife, Elsa, in Rockland County, New York, in a farmhouse which they have shared since 1961, located on High Tor Mountain.