What is Norman Mailer?
[[File:Norman Mailer 1948 (cropped).jpg|200px|thumb|Norman Mailer in 1948]] '''Norman Kingsley Mailer''' (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]] and [[journalist]]. He was born in [[Long Branch, New Jersey]] and raised in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]. Along with [[Truman Capote]], [[Joan Didion]], and [[Tom Wolfe]], Mailer writes [[creative nonfiction]], sometimes called [[New Journalism]], but which covers the [[essay]] to the [[nonfiction novel]]. He was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] twice and the [[National Book Award]] once on his journalism career. In 1955, Mailer, along with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published ''[[The Village Voice]]'', which was shown to the [[Greenwich Village]]. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The [[National Book Foundation]]. Mailer died of [[renal failure]] in New York City. ==Other websites== {{wikiquote-en|Norman Mailer}} * [http://www.normanmailersociety.com The Norman Mailer Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313113100/http://www.normanmailersociety.com/ |date=2009-03-13 }} * [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm Norman Mailer at Books and Writers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605174154/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nmailer.htm |date=2008-06-05 }} * [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mailer_n.html Norman Mailer on American Masters (PBS Broadcast)] * [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-mailer/ Norman Mailer's writing on the Huffington Post] * [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/403 Norman Mailer New York Review of Books author profile and archive] includes list of reviews, letters, and essays from over 40 years, along with a bibliography {{DEFAULTSORT:Mailer, Norman}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2007 deaths]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:Deaths from renal failure]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in New York City]] [[Category:Journalists from New Jersey]] [[Category:Journalists from New York (state)]]