Mailer, Norman

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MAILER, Norman

MAILER, Norman. American, b. 1923. Genres: Novels, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Social commentary, Documentaries/Reportage. Career: Member, Editional Board, Dissent mag., 1953-63; Columnist, Esquire mag., NYC, 1962-63; Co-Founding Ed., Village Voice newspaper, NYC, 1965. Publications: The Naked and the Dead, 1948; Barbary Shore, 1951; The Deer Park, 1955, play, 1967; Advertisements for Myself, 1959; The White Negro, 1959; Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters (poetry), 1962; The Presidential Papers, 1963; An American Dream, 1965; Cannibals and Christians, 1966; The Bullfight, 1967; Why Are We in Vietnam? (novel), 1967; Wild 90, (screenplay), 1967; Beyond the Law (screenplay), 1967; The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History, 1968 (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize); Maidstone (screenplay), 1968, as Maidstone: A Mystery, 1971; The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1968; Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968, 1969; Of a Fire on the Moon, 1970; The Prisoner of Sex, 1971; The Long Patrol: 25Years of Writing from the Works of Norman Mailer, 1971; St. George and the Godfather, 1972; Existential Errands, 1972; Marilyn: A Biography, 1973; The Fight, 1975; Some Honorable Men, 1976; Genius and Lust, 1976; A Transit to Narcissus, 1978; The Executioner's Song, 1979 (Pulitzer Prize); Of Women and Their Elegance, 1980; Pieces and Pontifications, 1982; Ancient Evenings, 1983; Tough Guys Don't Dance, 1984; Marilyn: The Classic, 1989; Harlot's Ghost, 1992; Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, 1995; Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography, 1996; The Gospel According to the Son, 1997; The Time of Our Time, 1998. Address: c/o Random House Author's Mail, 1745 Broadway #B1, New York, NY 10019-4305, U.S.A.

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