Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American writer and journalist. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York City.

Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer writes creative nonfiction, 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 on his journalism career. In 1955, Mailer, along with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which was shown to the Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.

Mailer died of renal failure in New York City.

Norman Mailer Media

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  The 1986 PEN congress: (left to right) John Updike, Norman Mailer, E. L. Doctorow

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  Norman Mailer speaks in Provincetown, MA, during the annual Norman Mailer Society Conference, 2006.

Other websites

• The Norman Mailer Society Archived 2009-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Norman Mailer at Books and Writers Archived 2008-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Norman Mailer on American Masters (PBS Broadcast)
• Norman Mailer's writing on the Huffington Post
• Norman Mailer New York Review of Books author profile and archive includes list of reviews, letters, and essays from over 40 years, along with a bibliography