Norman Mailer
- Acting
- January 31, 1923 · Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
- November 10, 2007
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
- The Capote Tapes · Self
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · Self
- Best of Enemies · Self
- The 50 Year Argument · Self
- Norman Mailer: The American · Self
- Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower · Self
- 365 Day Project · Self
- Marilyn Monroe: Still Life · Self
- The Outsider · Self
- Inside Deep Throat · Self
- The Education of Gore Vidal · Self
- The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' · Self
- Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story · Writer, Executive producer
- Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story · Writer, Executive producer
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... · Self
- New York in the Fifties · Self
- L'étrange festival · Self
- American Tragedy · Writer
- Oh My America · Self
- Gilmore Girls · Norman Mailer
- Mailer on Mailer · Self
- Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
- maybrit illner · Self
- Cremaster 2 · Harry Houdini
- Storyville
- When We Were Kings · Self
- Baby Trouble Hole · Interviewed
- The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg · Self
- Hello Actors Studio · Self
- King Lear · Self
- Tough Guys Don't Dance · Director, Writer
- Empire City · Self
- The Executioner's Song · Writer
- The Executioner's Song · Novel, Screenplay
- Ragtime · Stanford White
- Chytilová Versus Forman · Self
- Marilyn: The Untold Story · Novel
- Town Bloody Hall · Self, Novel
- NDR Talk Show · Self
- The South Bank Show
- PBS News Hour · Self
- Apostrophes · Self
- Year of the Woman · Self
- Maidstone · Norman T. Kingsley, Writer
- Norman Mailer vs. Fun City
- Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
- The Dick Cavett Show · Self
- Beyond the Law · Lt. Francis Xavier Pope, Director
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches · Self
- Wild 90 · Prince, Director
- Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? · Self
- An American Dream · Novel
- The Merv Griffin Show · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson · Self
- The David Susskind Show · Self
- The Naked and the Dead · Novel
- Monitor
- The Oscars · Self
- Today · Self
- Untitled (Millicent's Dream) · Director, Editing