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  <name><![CDATA[Norman Mailer]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published &lt;i&gt;The Village Voice&lt;/i&gt;, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.
]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Long Branch, New Jersey</hometown>  <born_at>01/31/1923</born_at>  <died_at>11/10/2007</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Executioner's Song]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Naked and the Dead]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[An American Dream]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Castle in the Forest: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Fight]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Harlot's Ghost: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ancient Evenings]]></title>
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