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Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II. [1]
Nov 10, 2007 · Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Norman Mailer, lionized for his creative non-fiction style and his combative nature, died early Saturday at the age of 84, his literary executor said.
Jun 26, 2024 · Norman Mailer, American novelist and journalist best known for using a form of journalism, called New Journalism, that combines the imaginative subjectivity of literature with the more objective qualities of journalism. Learn more about Mailer’s life and work, including his notable books.
Nov 10, 2007 · Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel.
Jun 28, 2024 · “How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” hits on an ingenious structure that avoids hagiography even as it includes friends and family.
Dec 19, 2022 · His reactionary sexual politics, expressed at length in the rapturously composed but morally preposterous polemic “The Prisoner of Sex,” published in Harper’s, in 1971, have been at the ...
Oct 19, 2001 · A Brief History of Norman Mailer. by J. Michael Lennon, Professor of English, Wilkes University. Among our major living writers, Norman Mailer is perhaps the most well-known, both in the...
Nov 10, 2007 · Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He...
Nov 10, 2007 · Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" ...
Nov 10, 2007 · One of the greatest writers of his generation, Norman Mailer has died at the age of 84. Mailer burst onto the literary scene in 1948 with The Naked and the Dead, and won two Pultizer Prizes...
