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Norman Mailer

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Also known as Norman Kingsley Mailer, Andreas Wilson

American writer (1923–2007)

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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923–2007) was an American journalist, actor, film director, and screenwriter. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, he died in New York City of kidney failure. Mailer was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served in World War II and was married to Adele Morales, with whom he had a son, Stephen Mailer.

Mailer received the National Book Award, the George Polk Award, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, the Hammett Prize, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. His works include *An American Dream*, *Heroic War Stories*, *Miami and the siege of chicago*, and *Managing Human Resources*. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of Paris.

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Person · Open Library

Born
31 January 1923
Died
10 November 2007
Works
359

Top works

  • AN AMERICAN DREAM
  • Heroic War Stories
  • Miami and the siege of chicago
  • Managing Human Resources
  • American Dream 1ST Edition

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Film & TV

Acting · Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

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…

Known for

  • How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer — Self (archive footage)2023
  • The Capote Tapes — Self (voice) (archive footage)2021
  • What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — Self2019
  • Best of Enemies — Self (archival)2015
  • The 50 Year Argument — Himself2014
  • Norman Mailer: The American — Self (archive footage)2012
  • Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower — Self2008
  • 365 Day Project — Self2007
  • Marilyn Monroe: Still Life — Self - Writer & Filmmaker2006
  • The Outsider — Self2005

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1923
Active to
2007
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
221
Total plays
2,838

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, N.J. Mailer grew up in Brooklyn and began attending Harvard University in 1939, it was while at university that he became interested in writing, he published his first story when he was 18. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1943. Drafted into the army in 1944, he served in the Philippines, as a rifleman in a reconnaissance outfit with the Twelfth Armoured Cavalry regiment from Texas until 1946. <a href="https://w

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

    · 2000 · cited 23,034x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,798x

  4. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

    · 1988 · cited 15,809x

  5. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,803x

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Quotes

  • “Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
  • “The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”
  • “The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today … We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.”
  • “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
  • “You're contending with a genius, D.J. is his name, only American alive who could outtalk Cassius Clay, that's lip.”
  • “This is D.J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Norman
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Long Branch
Place of death
New York City
Occupation
stage actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
Judaism
Conflict
World War II
Military branch
United States Army
Image
Oliver Mark - Norman Mailer, Berlin 2002.jpg
Residence
Brooklyn
Convicted of
assault
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Commons category
Norman Mailer
date of birth
1923-01-31
date of death
2007-11-10
cause of death
kidney failure
ethnic group
Jewish people
member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
birth name
Norman Kingsley Mailer
manner of death
natural causes
nominated for
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay
influenced by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
name in native language
Norman Kingsley Mailer
pseudonym
Andreas Wilson
archives at
Harry Ransom Center
personal library at
Harry Ransom Center
writing language
English language
Sources (15)

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Encyclopedic overview

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.

His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as the National Book Award. Among his other well-known works are An American Dream (1965), The Fight (1975) and The Executioner's Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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