Norman Mailer

Acting

Born: 1923-01-31
Died: 2007-11-10
From: Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.5

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & Nominations13 won · 6 nominated

🏆 Won

PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

1996
Nominated

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1994
🏆 Won

Helmerich Award

1992
Nominated

Hammett Prize

Harlot's Ghost

1991
🏆 Won

Emerson-Thoreau Medal

1989
🏆 Won

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Tough Guys Don't Dance

1988
Nominated

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay

Tough Guys Don't Dance

1988
Nominated

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Tough Guys Don't Dance

1988
🏆 Won

Lucien Barrière Literary Award

1982
🏆 Won

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Executioner's Song

1980
Nominated

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Executioner's Song

1980
🏆 Won

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

The Armies of the Night

1969
🏆 Won

National Book Award

1969
🏆 Won

George Polk Award

1968
Nominated

National Book Award for Fiction

Why Are We in Vietnam?

1968
🏆 Won

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

🏆 Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

🏆 Won

star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

🏆 Won

Legion of Honour

Acting43 titles

Directing5 titles

Writing12 titles

Production4 titles

Editing4 titles