Norman Mailer
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
ActingBirthday
January 31, 1923Deathday
November 10, 2007Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
42Place of birth
Long Branch, New Jersey, USACast credits
Ragtime
Stanford WhiteKeep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
King Lear
The Great WriterNorman Mailer: The American
Self (archive footage)Town Bloody Hall
HimselfThe Outsider
SelfMaidstone
Norman T. KingsleyBeyond the Law
Lt. Francis Xavier PopeWild 90
PrinceThe 50 Year Argument
HimselfWhen We Were Kings
SelfWill the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
SelfDouble Pisces, Scorpio Rising
Mailer on Mailer
HimselfHenry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
SelfInside Deep Throat
SelfThe Education of Gore Vidal
Self (archive footage)Crew credits
The Naked and the Dead
NovelKing Lear
WriterTough Guys Don't Dance
Director, WriterAn American Dream
NovelMaidstone
Director, Writer, Producer, EditorWild 90
Director, Producer, EditorBeyond the Law
DirectorThe Executioner's Song
WriterUntitled (Millicent's Dream)
Editor, DirectorMarilyn: The Untold Story
BookMaster Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Writer, Executive Producer