Norman Mailer






Norman Mailer

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born
January 31, 1923

died
November 10, 2007

gender
male

place of birth
Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States

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genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry


about this author

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 The Village Voice, 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.




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The Executioner's Song The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 4.08 — 1,883 ratings — published 1979
15 editions
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The Naked and the Dead The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.99 — 1,193 ratings — published 1948
27 editions
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The Armies of the Night: Histo... The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.63 — 500 ratings — published 1968
13 editions
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An American Dream An American Dream
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.51 — 466 ratings — published 1965
14 editions
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The Castle in the Forest: A No... The Castle in the Forest: A Novel
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.02 — 485 ratings — published 2007
14 editions
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Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Nove... Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.42 — 308 ratings — published 1984
15 editions
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The Fight The Fight
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 4.00 — 208 ratings — published 1975
9 editions
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Harlot's Ghost: A Novel Harlot's Ghost: A Novel
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.55 — 234 ratings — published 1991
10 editions
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The Gospel According to the So... The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.18 — 249 ratings — published 1997
10 editions
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Ancient Evenings Ancient Evenings
by Norman Mailer
avg rating 3.23 — 215 ratings — published 1983
7 editions
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"Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego."
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"One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that."
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"There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night."
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