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Norman Mailer

Norman MailerAKA Norman Kingsley Mailer

Born: 31-Jan-1923
Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ
Died: 10-Nov-2007
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: Kidney failure

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Armies of the Night

Military service: US Army (1944-46, WWII, Philippines)

Wife: Beatrice Silverman (m. 1944, div. 1952, three daughters)
Wife: Adele Morales (artist, div.)
Wife: Beverley Bentley (m. 1963, div.)
Wife: Jean Campbell (div.)
Wife: Norris Church Mailer
Son: Michael Mailer (b. 1964)
Son: Matthew Mailer (b. 1972)
Son: Stephen Mailer

    University: SB Engineering Sciences, Harvard University (1943, with honors)

    The Village Voice Co-Founder, 1955
    Dissent Editor, 1952-63
    Academy of Achievement (2004)
    MoveOn.org
    Polk Award 1968
    Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 1969 for Armies of the Night
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1980 for The Executioner's Song
    National Book Award for Arts and Letters 1969 for Armies of the Night
    Emerson Thoreau Medal 1989
    John P. McGovern Award 2002
    Psychiatric Observation Bellevue Hospital
    Wedding: Michael Huffington and Arianna Stassinopoulos (1986)
    Jewish Ancestry Paternal
    Risk Factors: Orgone

    FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
    Tough Guys Don't Dance (12-Sep-1987)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Inside Deep Throat (11-Feb-2005) Himself
    Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (10-Sep-2004) Himself
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (15-Apr-2000)
    Cremaster 2 (13-Oct-1999)
    When We Were Kings (25-Oct-1996) Himself
    Ragtime (20-Nov-1981)

Author of books:
The Naked and the Dead (1948, novel)
Barbary Shore (1951, novel)
The Deer Park (1955, novel)
The White Negro (1957, essay)
Advertisements for Myself (1959)
Death for the Ladies (And Other Disasters) (1962, poetry)
The Presidential Papers (1963, novel)
An American Dream (1964, novel)
Cannibals and Christians (1966, novel)
Why are we in Vietnam? (1967, novel)
The Armies of the Night (1968, novel)
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1969)
A Fire on the Moon (1970)
The Prisoner of Sex (1971)
Maidstone (1971, novel)
Existential Errands (1972, novel)
St. George and the Godfather (1972, novel)
Marilyn (1973, biography)
The Fight (1975)
Some Honourable Men (1976)
Genius and Lust (1976, novel)
The Transit of Narcissus (1978, novel)
The Executioner's Song (1979, nonfiction)
Of Women and their Elegance (1980, novel)
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy (1980, novel)
Pieces and Pontifications (1982)
Ancient Evenings (1983, novel)
Tough Guys don't Dance (1983, novel)
Harlot's Ghost (1991, novel)
Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man (1996)
Oswald's Tale (1996, nonfiction)
The Gospel According to the Son (1997, novel)
The Time of Our Time (1998)


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