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Feb 6, 2023 · Mailer in a glider, 1970s (Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress) Today is the 100th birthday of Norman Mailer, whose prodigious six-decade career as a novelist, journalist, and cultural commentator was defined by irreducible complexities and contradictions. The untrammeled confidence, verve, and precision of his writing, set against the excesses and transgressions of his personal […]
Nov 11, 2007 · A Pampered Son. Norman Kingsley — or, in Hebrew, Nachem Malek — Mailer was born in Long Branch, N.J., on Jan. 31, 1923. His father, Isaac Barnett Mailer, known as Barney, was a South African ...
Nov 11, 2007 · Norman Mailer. No one would say of Norman Mailer, who died on November 10th, at the age of eighty-four, that he hoarded his gift. He was a slugger. He swung at everything, and when he missed he ...
Jan 25, 2023 · I T WAS THE novel that made Norman Mailer famous, aged just 25. Published in 1948, ... Mailer’s greatest achievement may well be “The Executioner’s Song” (1979). A 400,000-word chronicle ...
This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books [a] by and about Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), an American novelist, new journalist, essayist, public intellectual, filmmaker, and biographer. Over a fifty-nine-year period, Mailer won two Pulitzer Prizes and had eleven books spend a total of 160 weeks on the New York Times ...
Apr 28, 2023 · Bloomsbury, 304 pp., $28.00. Mailer’s early prose was raw, clean, experiential, and filled with the sweat and pain of his polyglot American characters—Irish, Polish, Jewish, Catholic, street ...
Nov 11, 2007 · Norman Mailer may have abused the privilege, but his career is a valuable reminder of that now anachronistic belief. HANSEN: Critic Bill Marx teaches contemporary fiction in the writing program at ...
