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  1. Nov 10, 2007 · edit data. 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.

  2. Feb 6, 2023 · 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 life, has created no end of ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. normanmailersociety.org › 100-years-of-norman-mailer100 Years of Norman Mailer

    Jan 31, 2023 · 100 Years of Norman Mailer. Norman Mailer, one of the most iconic and influential American writers of the 20th century, would have turned 100 years old today, January 31, 2023. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1923, Mailer was a novelist, journalist, columnist, poet, short story writer, biographer, playwright, literary critic, public ...

  6. Sep 22, 2021 · Norman Mailer (b. 1923–d. 2007) was one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, Mailer attended Harvard University with the initial intent of becoming an aeronautical engineer.

  7. Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died on Nov. 10, 2007 at Mt. Sinai ...

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