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| Name: |
Norman Kingsley Mailer | | Birth Date: |
1923 | | Place of Birth: |
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
author, director |
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 Biography of Norman Kingsley Mailer
1,173 words, approx. 4 pages
 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born 1923), American author, film producer and director, wrote one of the most noteworthy American novels about World War II. Only in his later political journalism did he reach that level of achievement again. Norman Mailer was... summary from source:
 Biography of Norman Mailer
17,992 words, approx. 60 pages
 [This entry was updated by J. Michael Lennon (Wilkes University) from his update in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 162-183, of the entries by Philip H. Bufithis (Shepherd College) in DLB 2: American Novelists Since... summary from source:
Biography of Norman Kingsley Mailer
14,028 words, approx. 47 pages
Norman Mailer's achievement lies primarily in his treatment of the conflict between man's search for self-actualization and the strictures society places upon him. Mailer has rendered this theme with an energy of style, an ideational power, and a vivid...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Mailer, Norman (1923—) Summary
1,300 words, approx. 4 pagesWith the publication of his brilliant first novel The Naked and the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer established himself as the next important writer of his age; and indeed, over the next five decades, he has fulfilled that promise many times over.... summary from source:
 Norman Mailer Information
2,483 words, approx. 8 pages
Norman Mailer Normanmailer.jpg}} | Born January 31 1923 ( 1923-01-31 ) Long Branch , New Jersey Died November 10 2007 (aged 84) New York City , New York Occupation Novelist Nationality American Genres Fiction Debut works The Naked and the Dead...
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 AP News Quotes about Norman Mailer
11/10/2007: 560 words, approx. 2 pagesQuotes about Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at age 84:"He was really the great chronicler of his time, the champion of personal reportage. His output was prodigious, his range of interests very wide, from Marilyn Monroe to Picasso to the art of graffiti to extreme... summary from source:
AP News Norman Mailer archive opens in Texas
1/4/2008: 499 words, approx. 2 pagesNorman Mailer was a literary pugilist, attacking his subjects and opponents as writer, debater and cultural provocateur.A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, fighter, feuder, journalist and poet, Mailer was a key figure as postwar America passed through the era of civil rights, Vietnam and women's liberation.On Thursday,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by James Toback
7,853 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Toback provides a survey of Mailer's writings and personal politics upon the publication of Why Are We in Vietnam?
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Critical Essay by Robert Merrill
4,544 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Merrill offers critical examination of Mailer's nonfiction essays, including "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," "The White Negro," and "Ten Thousand Words a Minute."
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Critical Review by Frank Kermode
4,125 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following review, Kermode offers a favorable assessment of The Gospel According to the Son, which he concludes is "a book of considerable intellectual force."
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