Once Karanlik vardi, gibi tipki, "once Hipster vardi," ve Hipster bir yeralti adami idi. Beat, Beatnik, Jazz, Cool, Bobstill, Bebop, Hippi, Punk ve cogaltabilecegimiz cokca kultur teriminin ozunde yatiyor Hipster -onlarin varlik sebebi bir anlamda. Norman Mailer, Hip insanina ilk derli toplu yaklasimda bulunan ve Beat Kusagi'nin hemen oncesinde mevzilenen ve onlarinda var olmasina onulmaz bir katki saglayan Beyaz Zenci'sinde doneminin donelerini hem yaratarak hem de kullanarak elinden geleni ardina koymuyor. Hip'i ve insanini isimlendirildigi tarihten bu gune dek getirirken, ayni zamanda siyah kulturun diplerine dogru da kacinilmaz bir kultur yolculuguna ciktik. Bu kitap bir alt-karsi kultur manifestosu! (Tanitim Bulteninden)
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.