Norman Mailer

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

46

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-01-31

Day of death

2007-11-10 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

Norman Mailer

Biography

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

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • Gilmore Girls

    Gilmore Girls

  • NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

  • The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

  • maybrit illner

    maybrit illner

  • Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

  • The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Today

    Today

  • How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

    How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

  • Gero von Boehm begegnet...

    Gero von Boehm begegnet...

  • Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law

  • Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

  • Town Bloody Hall

    Town Bloody Hall

  • 365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

  • The David Susskind Show

    The David Susskind Show

  • The 50 Year Argument

    The 50 Year Argument

  • What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

  • Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

    Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

  • King Lear

    King Lear

  • When We Were Kings

    When We Were Kings

  • Year of the Woman

    Year of the Woman

  • Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

    Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

  • Inside Deep Throat

    Inside Deep Throat

  • Ragtime

    Ragtime

  • Maidstone

    Maidstone

  • PBS News Hour

    PBS News Hour

  • The Outsider

    The Outsider

  • Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

    Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

  • Hello Actors Studio

    Hello Actors Studio

  • Norman Mailer: The American

    Norman Mailer: The American

  • Cremaster 2

    Cremaster 2

  • The Capote Tapes

    The Capote Tapes

  • Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?

    Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?

  • Best of Enemies

    Best of Enemies

  • New York in the Fifties

    New York in the Fifties

  • Mailer on Mailer

    Mailer on Mailer

  • Empire City

    Empire City

  • Norman Mailer vs. Fun City

    Norman Mailer vs. Fun City

  • The Education of Gore Vidal

    The Education of Gore Vidal

  • Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

  • L'étrange festival

    L'étrange festival

  • Oh My America

    Oh My America

  • The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

  • Wild 90

    Wild 90

  • Baby Trouble Hole

    Baby Trouble Hole