Biography
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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Filmography
all 54
Movies 41
self 36
TV Shows 13
Writer 8
Director 2
The Capote Tapes (2021)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
The 50 Year Argument (2014)
The David Susskind Show: Give 'em Hell Harry (2012)
Norman Mailer: The American (2012)
Ptown Diaries (2009)
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower (2008)
The Outsider (2005)
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
The Education of Gore Vidal (2003)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003)
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Gero von Boehm begegnet... (2002)
New York in the Fifties (2001)
L'étrange festival (2001)
American Tragedy (2000)
Oh My America (2000)
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Mailer on Mailer (2000)
Time of Her Time (2000)
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)
Maybrit Illner (1999)
Cremaster 2 (1999)
When We Were Kings (1996)
Baby Trouble Hole (1996)
Hello Actors Studio (1988)
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
King Lear (1987)
The Last Moguls (1986)
Empire City (1985)
The Executioner's Song (1982)
Ragtime (1981)
Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980)
Town Bloody Hall (1979)
NDR Talk Show (1979)
PBS NewsHour (1975)
Apostrophes (1975)
2nd House (1973)
Year of the Woman (1973)
Maidstone (1971)
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising (1970)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Beyond the Law (1968)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
Wild 90 (1968)
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? (1968)
An American Dream (1966)
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The David Susskind Show (1959)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
Untitled (Millicent's Dream) (1947)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1923-01-31
Deathday2007-11-10 (84 years old)
Birth NameNorman Kingsley Mailer
Birth PlaceLong Branch, United States of America
ReligionJudaism
Height
RelationshipsAdele Morales (1954-04-19 - 1962-01-01), Jeanne Campbell (1962-05-04 - 1963-12-16), Norris Church Mailer (1980-11-11 - 2007-11-10)
SpouseCarol Stevens
ChildrenKate Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer, Michael Mailer, Stephen Mailer, Maggie Alexandra Mailer, Elizabeth Anne Mailer, Danielle Mailer, Susan Mailer
FatherIsaac Barnett Mailer
MotherFanny Schneider
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesBrooklyn · Provincetown · Long Branch · New Jersey, United States of America
AwardsEmerson-Thoreau Medal, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director, George Polk Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, National Book Award, Legion of Honour, Helmerich Award, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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