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person_profile-Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer Died at age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Norman Mailer

Date of Birth:

Jan 31, 1923

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 10, 2007

Biography of

Norman Mailer

    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.

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Norman Mailer

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Filmography of

Norman Mailer

Found 27 Movies in total

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

The Capote Tapes

Self (voice) (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2019

The 50 Year Argument

Himself ( Actor )

... 2014

... 2013

Norman Mailer: The American

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2007

Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

Self - Writer & Filmmaker ( Actor )

... 2006

The Outsider

Self ( Actor )

... 2005

Inside Deep Throat

Self ( Actor )

... 2005

The Education of Gore Vidal

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

Mailer on Mailer

Himself ( Actor )

... 2000

... 2000

Cremaster 2

Harry Houdini ( Actor )

... 1999

When We Were Kings

Self ( Actor )

... 1996

Baby Trouble Hole

Interviewed ( Actor )

... 1996

Hello Actors Studio

Self ( Actor )

... 1988

King Lear

The Great Writer (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1988

Empire City

Self ( Actor )

... 1985

Ragtime

Stanford White ( Actor )

... 1981

Town Bloody Hall

Himself ( Actor )

... 1979

Maidstone

Norman T. Kingsley ( Actor )

Editor

... 1971

... 1970

... 1970

Beyond the Law

Lt. Francis Xavier Pope ( Actor )

Editor

... 1968

Wild 90

Prince ( Actor )

Editor

... 1968

... 1968