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Norman Mailer


Born
in Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States
January 31, 1923

Died
November 10, 2007

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Genre
Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

Influences
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Mann, Leon Tolstoy, John Steinb ...more


Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.
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Average rating: 3.81 · 87,339 ratings · 6,604 reviews · 305 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Naked and the Dead
3.94 avg rating — 26,031 ratings — published 1948 — 10 editions
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The Executioner's Song
4.05 avg rating — 22,537 ratings — published 1979 — 86 editions
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The Fight
4.04 avg rating — 5,296 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions
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An American Dream
3.44 avg rating — 4,003 ratings — published 1965 — 125 editions
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The Armies of the Night: Hi...
3.62 avg rating — 3,355 ratings — published 1968 — 85 editions
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
3.50 avg rating — 3,413 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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The Castle in the Forest
3.16 avg rating — 3,090 ratings — published 2007 — 80 editions
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Harlot's Ghost
3.88 avg rating — 2,476 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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Ancient Evenings
3.44 avg rating — 1,995 ratings — published 1983 — 68 editions
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Marilyn
3.73 avg rating — 1,796 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer
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“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
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“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
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