Claude O. Norcott

Claude O. Norcott wrote and edited publications for government and private clients specializing in philanthropy. Her clients included the White House, Cabinet officers, more than 30 presidential and congressional commissions and such private foundations as the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. She won several national awards, including one for the Justice Department’s bicentennial year history of the American criminal justice system, which she wrote and illustrated. Claude Owre Norcott was born in New York and raised in Oyster Bay, N.Y. She received a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. She passed away in 2004.