Norman Mailer

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1923-01-31
  • event Death Date 2007-11-10
  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
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7.1

Ragtime

1981-11-20

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Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

2000-04-15

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King Lear

1987-09-15

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Norman Mailer: The American

2012-05-18

6.4

The Capote Tapes

2021-09-10

6.2

The Outsider

2005-12-04

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Maidstone

1971-03-09

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Beyond the Law

1968-04-02

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Wild 90

1968-01-08

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New York in the Fifties

2001-10-16

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Town Bloody Hall

1979-04-03

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The 50 Year Argument

2014-06-29

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Hello Actors Studio

1988-11-09

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L'étrange festival

2001-01-01

6.5

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019-03-22

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When We Were Kings

1996-10-25

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Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?

1968-01-01

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How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

2023-11-21

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Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

1970-09-12

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Year of the Woman

1973-10-01

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365 Day Project

2007-12-31

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Mailer on Mailer

2000-10-04

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Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

2008-12-15

6.5

Inside Deep Throat

2005-02-11

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The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

2003-01-01

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The Education of Gore Vidal

2003-06-30

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Baby Trouble Hole

1996-09-29

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Empire City

1985-07-01

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Oh My America

2000-11-11

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Cremaster 2

1999-10-13

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

2013-11-23

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Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

2006-07-18

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Today

1952-01-14

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The Merv Griffin Show

1962-10-01

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The David Susskind Show

1959-01-18

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PBS News Hour

1975-10-20

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Gilmore Girls

2000-10-05

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The Oscars

1953-03-19

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Gero von Boehm begegnet...

2002-04-09

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962-10-01

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Apostrophes

1975-01-10

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The Dick Cavett Show

1968-06-06

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Maybrit Illner

1999-10-21

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NDR Talk Show

1979-02-09

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