Mailer, Norman

A twentieth-century American writer whose first novel , The Naked and the Dead , based on his wartime experiences, established him as a major novelist. His works of New Journalism — personal, sometimes fictionalized accounts of current political events — include The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song , a so-called true life novel about the death of convicted killer, Gary Gilmore.

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The remark comes to mind while reading The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer.

Some, like Norman Mailer, adopted the cooler pose of being casually interested in the possibility.

Norman Mailer recalled the evening Harold once saved his life.

Upton Sinclair, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal failed in all of their various electoral endeavors.

RKF: I remember a prominent New York literary woman years ago saying to me, “Norman Mailer is not a father, he is a procreator.”

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