Norman Mailer, author portrait
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Norman Mailer

Born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to date to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Norman Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.
Why Are We in Vietnam?
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
The Deer Park
Modest Gifts
Barbary Shore
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
An American Dream
Of a Fire on the Moon
Mind of an Outlaw
Ancient Evenings
Tough Guys Don't Dance
The Fight
On God
The Castle in the Forest
The Spooky Art
Why Are We at War?
The Gospel According to the Son
Oswald's Tale
The Armies of the Night
Harlot's Ghost

Books

Why Are We in Vietnam?
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
The Deer Park
Modest Gifts
Barbary Shore
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
An American Dream
Of a Fire on the Moon
Mind of an Outlaw
Ancient Evenings
Tough Guys Don't Dance
The Fight
On God
The Castle in the Forest
The Spooky Art
Why Are We at War?
The Gospel According to the Son
Oswald's Tale
The Armies of the Night
Harlot's Ghost

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