Norman Mailer

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New York Times: Review of The Gospel According to the Son April 24, 1997
International Herald Tribune: Review of The Castle in the Forest (Jan. 19, 2007)
TIME: War & No Peace (May 10, 1948)
Time: The Weekend Revolution: The Armies of the Night Review (May 10, 1968)

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Dissent Magazine: "The White Negro" (1957)
New York Times: "Ali-Foreman: The Eighth and Final Round" (Aug. 3, 1975)
New York Times: "Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100" (Dec. 9, 1984)

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Radar Online Blog Post: Norman Mailer Disses New Wave, Reagan (July 24, 2007)
Wilkes University: Wilkes Professor talks God with Norman Mailer (Oct. 19, 2007)

Norman Mailer Personal Timeline

1923: Born in Long Branch, New Jersey
1927: Family Moves to Brooklyn
1939: Admitted into Harvard at age 16
1941: Published his first story
1944: Joined the Army and served in the Philippines
1948: The Naked and the Dead Published
1954: Co-founded The Village Voice
1960: Stabbed wife Adele Morales with a pen-knife
1962: Married Lady Jeanne Campbell, had daughter Kate Mailer
1963: Married Beverly Bentley
1964: Son Michael Mailer born
1966: Son Stephen Mailer born
1968: Won Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Armies of the Night
1969: Ran for New York City Mayor and lost
1980: Lobbied for convicted killer Jack Abbot's Parole
1992: Conceded that his involvement with Abbot was a mistake
2007: Died on November 10th

Norman Mailer Publications Timeline

1948: The Naked and the Dead
1951: Barbary Shore
1955: The Deer Park
1957: "The White Negro"
1959: Advertisements for Myself
1963: The Presidential Papers
1965: An American Dream
1967: Why Are We in Vietnam?
1968: Armies of the Night
1970: Of a Fire on the Moon
1971: "The Prisoner of Sex" | Summary
1979: The Executioner's Song
1983: Ancient Evenings
1991: Harlot's Ghost | Excerpts
1995: Oswald's Tale
2003: The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
2007: The Castle in the Forest

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Guide Note

Norman Mailer is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and non-fiction writer. He is equally known for his literary contributions and his cantankerous, larger-than-life personality.

In April 2008, Mailer's longtime mistress Carole Mallory sold an unpublished memoir about sex with Mailer to Harvard University.

Fast Facts

Given Name: Norman Kingsley Mailer
Born: January 23, 1923
Birthplace: Long Branch, New Jersey
Died: November 10, 2007
Father: Isaac Barnett Mailer
Mother: Fanny Schneider
Siblings: Barbara Mailer
Spouse: Barbara Davis
Ex-Spouses: Carol Stevens, Beverly Bentley, Lady Jeanne Campbell, Adele Morales, Beatrice Silverman
Children: Susan, Danielle, Elizabeth, Kate, Michael, Stephen, Maggie, John
Education: Boys' High School, Harvard University
Selected Awards:
1. 2 Pulitzer Prizes
2. National Book Award
Selected Major Works: The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer Quotes

With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Culture is worth a little risk.
Booze, pot, too much sex, failure in one's private life, too much attrition, too much recognition, too little recognition. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.

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