Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 31, 1923
Died
Nov 10, 2007
Place of Birth
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Credits
58 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Self (archive footage)
The Capote Tapes
Self (voice) (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
Best of Enemies
Self (archival)
The 50 Year Argument
Himself
Norman Mailer: The American
Self (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
Self
365 Day Project
Self
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Self - Writer & Filmmaker
The Outsider
Self
Inside Deep Throat
Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Self (archive footage)
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Writer
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Writer
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
New York in the Fifties
Self
L'étrange festival
Himself
American Tragedy
Writer
Oh My America
Himself
Gilmore Girls
Norman Mailer
Mailer on Mailer
Himself
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
maybrit illner
Self
Cremaster 2
Harry Houdini
When We Were Kings
Self
Baby Trouble Hole
Interviewed
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Self
Hello Actors Studio
Self
King Lear
Self (uncredited)
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Director
Empire City
Self
The Executioner's Song
Writer
The Executioner's Song
Book
Ragtime
Stanford White
Chytilová Versus Forman
Self
Marilyn: The Untold Story
Book
Town Bloody Hall
Himself
NDR Talk Show
Self
PBS News Hour
Self
Apostrophes
Self
Year of the Woman
Self
Maidstone
Norman T. Kingsley
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Beyond the Law
Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Wild 90
Prince
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
Self