With 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....

(born Jan. 31, 1923, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.—died Nov. 10, 2007, New York, N.Y.) American novelist and journalist, best known for using a form of journalism—called New Journalism—that combines the imaginative subjectivity of...

American novelist and journalist (born Jan. 31, 1923, Long Branch, N.J.—died Nov. 10, 2007, New York, N.Y.) was best known for using a form of journalism—called New Journalism—that combines the imaginative subjectivity of literature...

(born Jan. 31, 1923, Long Branch, N.J., U.S.—died Nov. 10, 2007, New York, N.Y.) U.S. novelist. He studied at Harvard University. He drew on his wartime service in the Pacific for his novel The Naked and the Dead (1948), which established him as...

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative...