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Norman Kingsley Mailer (31. ledna 1923, Long Branch, New Jersey – 10. listopadu 2007, New York) byl americký spisovatel, novinář, esejista, dramatik, aktivista, filmař. Patří mezi nejznámější a nejrespektovanější americké spisovatele druhé poloviny 20. století.
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 10, 2007 · Norman Mailer campaigning for Mayor of New York City in 1969. (Bob Peterson/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) In the 1960s, Mailer found a renewed sense of purpose in reporting on the social upheaval associated with the civil rights and anti-war movements, the rising counterculture and the sexual revolution.
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 · 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 ...
Jan 25, 2023 · Jan 25th 2023. IT WAS THE novel that made Norman Mailer famous, aged just 25. Published in 1948, “The Naked and the Dead” was based on his experiences as a US Army rifleman in the Philippines ...
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 ...
