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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:21/11/2023
The Capote Tapes
Character:Self (voice) (archive footage)
Release Date:10/09/2021
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Character:Self
Release Date:22/03/2019
Best of Enemies
Character:Self (archival)
Release Date:31/07/2015
The 50 Year Argument
Character:Himself
Release Date:07/06/2014
Norman Mailer: The American
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:18/05/2012
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
Character:Self
Release Date:15/12/2008
365 Day Project
Character:
Release Date:31/12/2007
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Character:Self - Writer & Filmmaker
Release Date:18/07/2006
The Outsider
Character:Self
Release Date:04/12/2005
Inside Deep Throat
Character:Self
Release Date:11/02/2005
The Education of Gore Vidal
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:30/06/2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2003
New York in the Fifties
Character:Self
Release Date:16/10/2001
L'étrange festival
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/2001
Oh My America
Character:Himself
Release Date:11/11/2000
Mailer on Mailer
Character:Himself
Release Date:04/10/2000
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
Character:
Release Date:15/04/2000
Cremaster 2
Character:Harry Houdini
Release Date:13/10/1999
When We Were Kings
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/1996
Baby Trouble Hole
Character:Interviewed
Release Date:29/09/1996
Hello Actors Studio
Character:Self
Release Date:09/11/1988
King Lear
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:22/01/1988
Empire City
Character:Self
Release Date:01/07/1985
Ragtime
Character:Stanford White
Release Date:20/11/1981
Town Bloody Hall
Character:Himself
Release Date:03/04/1979
Year of the Woman
Character:
Release Date:01/10/1973
Maidstone
Character:Norman T. Kingsley
Release Date:09/03/1971
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1970
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
Character:
Release Date:12/09/1970
Beyond the Law
Character:Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
Release Date:02/04/1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Character:Self
Release Date:01/03/1968
Wild 90
Character:Prince
Release Date:08/01/1968
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1968
Television Appearances
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Character:Self
Gilmore Girls
Character:Norman Mailer
maybrit illner
Character:Self
NDR Talk Show
Character:Self
PBS News Hour
Character:Self
Apostrophes
Character:Self
The Dick Cavett Show
Character:Self - Guest
The Merv Griffin Show
Character:Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The David Susskind Show
Character:Self
The Oscars
Character:Self
Today
Character:Self
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