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Norman Mailer


(Norman Kingsley Mailer)
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Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. The Armies of the Night won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for The Executioner's Song.
 

Awards: NBA (2005), Pulitzer (1980)  see all
 
Novels
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Collections
   Advertisements for Myself (1959)
   Deaths for the Ladies (1962)
   Existential Errands (1973)
   Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1981)
   Pieces (1982)
   Essential Mailer (1982)
   Pontifications (1982)
   Pieces and Pontifications (1983)
   The Time of Our Time (1998)
   Modest Gifts (poems) (2003)
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Books containing stories by Norman Mailer
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The Vintage Book of War Stories (1999)
edited by
Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen
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First Words (1993)
Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
edited by
Paul Mandelbaum
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Crime and Crime Again (1990)
Unexpected Mystery Stories by the World's Great Writers
edited by
Martin H Greenberg, Barry N Malzberg and Bill Pronzini

More books 


Awards
2005 DCAL Medal
1980 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : The Executioner's Song

Award nominations
1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Executioner's Song


Norman Mailer recommends
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A Disturbance in One Place (1994)
Binnie Kirshenbaum
"Not many young female novelists can deal with sex, the appetite for it, and the loss of such appetite with as much candor, lack of self-protection, and humor as Binnie Kirshenbaum."
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The Annunciation (1983)
Ellen Gilchrist
"Ellen Gilchrist is terrific."
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Whistle (1978)
(From Here to Eternity, book 3)
James Jones
"The only one of my contemporaries who I felt had more talent than myself was James Jones. And he has also been the only writer of any time for whom I felt any love."

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