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A Short Biography of Norman Mailer

Author Name:

Norman Mailer

Born As:

Norman Kingsley Mailer

Other Names:

Andreas Wilson

Born:

31 Jan 1923

Died:

10 Nov 2007




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Selected Works:

Fiction- Novels:

The Naked and the Dead - 1948
Barbary Shore - 1951
The Deer Park - 1955
An American Dream - 1965
Why Are We in Vietnam?  - 1967
The Executioner's Song Boston - 1979
Of Women and Their Elegance - 1980
Ancient Evenings - 1983
Tough Guys Don't Dance - 1984
Harlot's Ghost New York - 1991
The Gospel According to the Son - 1997
The Castle in the Forest - 2007

Plays:
The Deer Park: A Play - 1967

Short Stories:
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer - 1967

Non-fiction:

The Armies of the Night - 1968
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 -  1968
Of a Fire on the Moon - 1970
The Prisoner of Sex Boston - 1971
St George and The Godfather - 1972
The Faith of Graffiti - 1974
The Fight Boston - 1975
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots - 1980
Why Are We At War? - 2003
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing -  2003
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America - 2006
On God: An Uncommon Conversation - 2007

Essay Collections:

Advertisements for Myself - 1959
The Presidential Papers - 1963
Cannibals and Christians - 1966
Pieces and Pontifications Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982

Biographies:

Marilyn: A Biography - 1973
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretative Biography - 1995
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery - 1996

Famous Essays and Articles:

"The White Negro" San Francisco: City Lights - 1957                          
Mother Fanny Schneider
Father Isaac Barnett Mailer, two children.