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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 over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II. [1]
Mar 25, 2024 · His second novel, Barbary Shore (1951), and The Deer Park (1955) were greeted with critical hostility and mixed reviews, respectively. His next important work was a long essay, The White Negro (1957), a sympathetic study of a marginal social type—the “hipster.”.
Nov 11, 2007 · Mailer was a tireless worker who at his death was writing a sequel to his 2007 novel, "The Castle in the Forest."
Nov 10, 2007 · He was 84. He died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital early this morning, his family said. Mr. Mailer burst on the scene in 1948 with “The Naked and the Dead,” a partly ...
Nov 10, 2007 · In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation. 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 ...
Dec 19, 2022 · In a new book, “ Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer ,” the British literary scholar and biographer Richard Bradford has produced an almost entirely negative portrait of a man whose life is ...
Oct 19, 2001 · October 19, 2001. 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 United States and ...
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