Ten Books by Norman Mailer

Ten Books by Norman Mailer

Overview: Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was born in 1923 and published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts-and-politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.
Genre: Fiction/Classics