Norman Mailer
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.
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Acting
TV
Gilmore Girls
as Norman Mailer
2000
Movie
When We Were Kings
as Self
1996
Movie
Ragtime
as Stanford White
1981
Movie
Best of Enemies
as Self (archival)
2015
Movie
Inside Deep Throat
as Self
2005
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
TV
The Oscars
as Self
1953
TV
PBS News Hour
as Self
1975
Movie
King Lear
as Self (uncredited)
1988
TV
Today
as Self
1952
Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968
Movie
Cremaster 2
as Harry Houdini
1999
TV
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
Movie
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
2000
Movie
The 50 Year Argument
as Himself
2014
Movie
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
2019
Movie
Town Bloody Hall
as Himself
1979
Movie
Maidstone
as Norman T. Kingsley
1971
TV
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
Movie
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
as Self
1994
Movie
The Capote Tapes
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
Movie
Beyond the Law
as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
1968
Movie
The Outsider
as Self
2005
Movie
Wild 90
as Prince
1968
Crew
Movie
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Director
1987
Movie
The Naked and the Dead
Novel
1958
Movie
King Lear
Writer
1988
Movie
The Executioner's Song
Book
1982
Movie
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Writer
2002
Movie
Town Bloody Hall
Book
1979
Movie
Maidstone
Writer
1971
Movie
An American Dream
Novel
1966
Movie
Beyond the Law
Director
1968
Movie
American Tragedy
Writer
2000
Movie
Wild 90
Director
1968
Movie
Marilyn: The Untold Story
Book
1980