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Norman Mailer

Biography

Norman Mailer

Born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. His first novel, THE NAKED AND THE DEAD,  has never gone out of print, and his last novel, THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG, and is the only person to date to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

Norman Mailer

Books by Norman Mailer

written by Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon - Letters, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

Compiled by Norman Mailer’s authorized biographer, J. Michael Lennon, and organized by decade, SELECTED LETTERS OF NORMAN MAILER features the most fascinating of Mailer’s missives from 1940 to 2007 --- letters to his family and friends, to fans and fellow writers (including Truman Capote, James Baldwin and Philip Roth), to political figures from Henry Kissinger to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and to such cultural icons as John Lennon, Marlon Brando and even Monica Lewinsky.