1923-01-31 ( 102 years old ) in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer.
His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Mailer is considered an innovator of "creative non-fiction" or "New Journalism", along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his views through his novels, journalism, frequent press appearances and essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is "The White Negro". In 1955, he and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.
In 1960, Mailer was convicted of assault and served a three-year probation after he stabbed his wife Adele Morales with a penknife, nearly killing her. In 1969, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York. Mailer was married six times and had nine children.
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Movies
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
2023-11-21
The Capote Tapes
2021-09-10
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019-03-22
The 50 Year Argument
2014-06-07
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2013-11-23
Norman Mailer: The American
2012-05-18
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
2008-12-15
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
2006-07-18
The Outsider
2005-12-04
Inside Deep Throat
2005-02-11
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003-06-30
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003-01-01
New York in the Fifties
2001-10-16
L'étrange festival
2001-01-01
Oh My America
2000-11-11
Mailer on Mailer
2000-10-04
Cremaster 2
1999-10-13
When We Were Kings
1996-10-25
Baby Trouble Hole
1996-09-29
Hello Actors Studio
1988-11-09
King Lear
1988-01-22
Empire City
1985-07-01
Ragtime
1981-11-20
Town Bloody Hall
1979-04-03
Year of the Woman
1973-10-01
Maidstone
1971-03-09
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
1970-12-31
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970-09-12
Beyond the Law
1968-04-02
Wild 90
1968-01-08
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
1968-01-01
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