Norman Mailer
- Norman Kingsley Mailer
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- Mailer, Norman
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1923-01-31
- Place of birth
- Long Branch
- Date of death
- 2007-11-10
- Place of death
- New York
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Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer 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.
His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. Among his other well-known works are An American Dream (1965), The Fight (1975) and The Executioner's Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Mailer is considered an innovator of "creative non-fiction" or "New Journalism", along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre that uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. He was a prominent cultural commentator and critic, expressing his often controversial views through his novels, journalism, frequent press appearances, and essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is "The White Negro". In 1955, he and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.
In 1960, Mailer was convicted of assault and served a three-year probation after he stabbed his wife Adele Morales with a penknife, nearly killing her. In 1969, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York. Mailer was married six times and had nine children.
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American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
Last modified: 2020-08-09 (revision #19248)
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- Norman Mailer wrote Der Hirschpark
- Norman Mailer wrote blurb for Frühstück bei Tiffany
- Norman Mailer wrote blurb for Naked Lunch: Die ursprüngliche Fassung
- Norman Mailer wrote The Deer Park
- Norman Mailer is the subject of Prince (Nach Norman Mailer)
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