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Norman Mailer. 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 more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
Jun 26, 2024 · Norman Mailer (born January 31, 1923, Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.—died November 10, 2007, New York, New York) was an American novelist and journalist best known for using a form of journalism—called New Journalism —that combines the imaginative subjectivity of literature with the more objective qualities of journalism.
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Oct 19, 2001 · Born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1923, but raised in Brooklyn, Mailer graduated from Boys High School in 1939. He entered Harvard in the fall of that year as the German army marched into Poland ...
Jun 28, 2024 · By Alissa Wilkinson. June 28, 2024. Given the hagiographic bias of most celebrity documentaries, “ How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer ” (in theaters) sails into choppy waters. The director ...
Nov 10, 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, known as Barney, was a South African émigré ...
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Dec 19, 2022 · When Norman Mailer was inducted into the Army, in March, 1944, he was a freshly married twenty-one-year-old Harvard graduate, a slight young man of five feet eight inches and a hundred and thirty ...
Nov 10, 2007 · 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. He was awarded the ...
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