Norman Mailer

Known for ActingBorn 1923-01-31Died 2007-11-10Long 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

365 Day Project

maybrit illner

Empire City

Year of the Woman

The Education of Gore Vidal

Apostrophes

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

Gilmore Girls

Chytilová Versus Forman

When We Were Kings

Best of Enemies

Norman Mailer: The American

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

The Outsider

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Ragtime

The 50 Year Argument

Marilyn: The Untold Story

The David Susskind Show

Hello Actors Studio

The Oscars

The Dick Cavett Show

Inside Deep Throat

NDR Talk Show

King Lear

Cremaster 2

The Merv Griffin Show

The Capote Tapes

Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

American Tragedy

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

Town Bloody Hall

The Executioner's Song

PBS News Hour

The Naked and the Dead

Wild 90

Beyond the Law

Today

Mailer on Mailer

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

An American Dream

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Maidstone

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

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