Norman Mailer

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1923-01-31

Deathday 2007-11-10 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

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

Actor

2023
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Capote Tapes

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

2014
2012
Norman Mailer: The American

as Self (archive footage)

2006
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

as Self - Writer & Filmmaker

2005
The Outsider

as Self

2005
2003
The Education of Gore Vidal

as Self (archive footage)

2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

as Self (archive footage)

2001
2000
Oh My America

as Himself

2000
Mailer on Mailer

as Himself

2000
Gilmore Girls

as Norman Mailer

1999
Cremaster 2

as Harry Houdini

1999
1996
1996
Baby Trouble Hole

as Interviewed

1987
King Lear

as The Great Writer

1985
Empire City

as Self

1981
Ragtime

as Stanford White

1979
Town Bloody Hall

as Himself

1979
1975
1975
Apostrophes

as Self

1971
Maidstone

as Norman T. Kingsley

1968
Beyond the Law

as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope

1968
Wild 90

as Prince

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
Today

as Self

Writer

2000
1987
King Lear

as Writer

1971
Maidstone

as Writer

1968
Beyond the Law

as Writer

1966

Director

1987
1971
Maidstone

as Director

1968
Beyond the Law

as Director

1968
Wild 90

as Director

Producer

2002
1971
Maidstone

as Producer

1968
Wild 90

as Producer

1968
Beyond the Law

as Producer

Editor

1971
Maidstone

as Editor

1968
Wild 90

as Editor

1968
Beyond the Law

as Editor