Norman Mailer
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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- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- Gilmore Girls (2000) as Norman Mailer
- NDR Talk Show (1979) as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- Apostrophes (1975) as Self
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- maybrit illner (1999) as Self
- PBS News Hour (1975) as Self
- Today (1952) as Self
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... (2002) as Self
- The David Susskind Show (1959) as Self
- Inside Deep Throat (2005) as Self
- King Lear (1988) as Self (uncredited)
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019) as Self
- When We Were Kings (1996) as Self
- Ragtime (1981) as Stanford White
- Best of Enemies (2015) as Self (archival)
- The Outsider (2005) as Self
- Empire City (1985) as Self
- 365 Day Project (2007) as Self
- Cremaster 2 (1999) as Harry Houdini
- Hello Actors Studio (1988) as Self
- Maidstone (1971) as Norman T. Kingsley