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  In April 2008, Mailer's longtime mistress Carole Mallory sold an unpublished memoir about sex with Mailer to Harvard University.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

  1. Given Name: Norman Kingsley Mailer
  2. Born: January 23, 1923
  3. Birthplace: Long Branch, New Jersey
  4. Died: November 10, 2007
  5. Father: Isaac Barnett Mailer
  6. Mother: Fanny Schneider
  7. Siblings: Barbara Mailer
  8. Spouse: Barbara Davis
  9. Ex-Spouses: Carol Stevens, Beverly Bentley, Lady Jeanne Campbell, Adele Morales, Beatrice Silverman
  10. Children: Susan, Danielle, Elizabeth, Kate, Michael, Stephen, Maggie, John
  11. Education: Boys' High School, Harvard University
  12. 1. 2 Pulitzer Prizes
  13. 1. National Book Award
  14. Selected Major Works: The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song

• Norman Mailer Quotes

  1. With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.
  2. 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.
  3. Culture is worth a little risk.
  4. 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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