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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 ...
- The Executioner’s Song—An immense panoramic nonfiction novel with over 300 characters that recreates the last nine months of Utah murderer Gary Gilmore.
- The Armies of the Night—Describing himself in the third person, Mailer draws on the techniques of the novelist, the journalist, and the historian to depict a divided nation.
- An American Dream—Written month by month for serial publication in Esquire, this dread-soaked 1965 novel about a psychology professor who murders his high society wife shows Mailer at the height of his metaphoric power.
- Advertisements for Myself—This 1959 miscellany contains samples of all Mailer’s earlier work stretching back to short stories written in college, as well as his endlessly reprinted essay about hipsters living in the New York demimonde, “The White Negro.”
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.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, producing more than 30 books over his writing career, including an acclaimed account of the fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print.
- The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer.
- Harlot's Ghost Norman Mailer.
- The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer.
- Tough Guys Don't Dance Norman Mailer.
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.
Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods... In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in ...
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