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Norman Mailer

Born

in Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States

January 31, 1923

Died

November 10, 2007

Website

http://normanmailersociety.org/

Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

Influences

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

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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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Norman Mailer’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 88,662 ratings · 6,796 reviews · 357 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Naked and the Dead 3.95 avg rating — 26,251 ratings — published 1948 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,937 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fight 4.04 avg rating — 5,414 ratings — published 1975 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An American Dream 3.44 avg rating — 4,079 ratings — published 1965 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History 3.61 avg rating — 3,408 ratings — published 1968 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tough Guys Don't Dance 3.50 avg rating — 3,473 ratings — published 1984 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Castle in the Forest 3.16 avg rating — 3,108 ratings — published 2007 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harlot's Ghost 3.88 avg rating — 2,518 ratings — published 1991 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Evenings 3.45 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 1983 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gospel According to the Son 3.26 avg rating — 2,077 ratings — published 1997 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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حكاية أوزوالد (1 book)
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3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings

The Executioner's Song (1 book)
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Barbara Jankowiak (translator)

3.59 avg rating — 32 ratings

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