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Norman Mailer
Nachem Malech Mailer, known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
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Born 31 January 1923 · Died 10 November 2007 · Q180962
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2026· 2 entries
“The difference between me and the other candidates is that I”
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2024· 1 entry
Variety: ‘How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer’ Review: A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience, and Its Dark Side Too
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2023· 1 entry
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer, a documentary by Jeff Zimbalist, was released
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2022· 2 entries
Yahoo: Norman Mailer is far from canceled. He's history
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Yahoo: Collection of Norman Mailer's writing finds new publisher
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2019· 2 entries
To coincide with the annual conference of the Norman Mailer Society and was attended by several members of Mailer's family
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Susan Mailer, Norman's eldest daughter, published a memoir about her relationship with her father
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2018· 1 entry
The Forward: Norman Mailer Never Hurt Women, Biographer Claims, Forgetting He Stabbed His Wife
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2014· 2 entries
Page Six: Writers honored at annual Norman Mailer Gala
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“s biographer J. Michael Lennon chose 712 of those letters and published them in Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, which covers the period between the 1940s and the early 2000s. In March 2018, the Library of America published a two-volume collection of Mailer”
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2013· 1 entry
Forbes: Norman Mailer's Beachfront Retreat For Sale
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2012· 1 entry
The Criterion Collection released Mailer's experimental films in a box set, "Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer"
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2008· 2 entries
The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a non-profit organization for educational purposes, was established to honor Mailer
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Carole Mallory, a former mistress, sold seven boxes of documents and photographs to Harvard University, Mailer's alma mater
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2007· 14 entries
A month after undergoing lung surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan
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Died 2007-11-10.
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Mailer contributed to Democratic Party candidates for political office
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“Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.”
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“There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.”
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“Culture is worth a little risk.”
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“I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.”
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“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”
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“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
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“With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance.”
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“Bill Clinton age como um caipira deslumbrado com a cidade grande. Ele fica perseguindo umas mulherzinhas que em Washington os políticos com um mínimo de compostura ignoram.”
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“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
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And are now displayed on the online arts community POBA - Where the Arts Live
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Months before he died, he re-wrote the script, and asked his son Michael, a film producer, to film a staged production in Provincetown, but had to cancel because of his declining health
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2005· 2 entries
Mailer served as a technical consultant on the Ron Howard boxing movie Cinderella Man, about legendary boxer Jim Braddock
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Mailer co-wrote a book with his youngest child, John Buffalo Mailer, titled The Big Empty
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2003· 3 entries
“Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.”
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In a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, just before the Iraq War, Mailer said: "Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy
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The Norman Mailer Society was founded to help ensure the legacy of Mailer's work
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2002· 1 entry
Expressed concern over Israel's treatment of Palestinians, comparing the situation of Palestinians to those in Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust
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2001· 1 entry
Adapted the screenplay for the movie: Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
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1999· 1 entry
Played Harry Houdini in Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2, which was inspired by the events surrounding the life of Gary Gilmore
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1997· 2 entries
Adele published a memoir of their marriage entitled The Last Party, which recounted her husband stabbing her at a party and the aftermath
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Mailer was set to direct the boxing drama "Ringside", based on an original script by his son Michael and two others
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (1996).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Helmerich Award (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
And received his best reviews since The Executioner's Song
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1989· 2 entries
Won Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1989).
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Mailer joined with a number of other prominent authors in publicly expressing support for colleague Salman Rushdie, whose The Satanic Verses led to a fatwa issued by Iran's Islamic government calling for Rushdie's assass
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1988· 1 entry
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for Tough Guys Don't Dance (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
Adapted and directed a film version of his novel Tough Guys Don't Dance starring Ryan O'Neal and Isabella Rossellini, which has become a minor camp classic
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Mailer was to appear in Jean-Luc Godard's experimental film version of Shakespeare's King Lear, to be shot in Switzerland
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Lucien Barrière Literary Award (1982).
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Mailer and Lawrence Schiller would collaborate on a television adaptation of The Executioner's Song, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Roseanna Arquette, and Eli Wallach
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Gloria Leonard first met Mailer
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1980· 5 entries
And divorced in Haiti on November 8, 1980, thereby legitimating their daughter Maggie, born in 1971
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Executioner's Song (1980).
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The Executioner's Song, Mailer's "real-life novel" of the life and death of murderer Gary Gilmore, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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Mailer spearheaded convicted killer Jack Abbott's successful bid for parole
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Was Norris Church Mailer (born Barbara Jean Davis, 1949–2010), an art teacher
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1977· 1 entry
Abbott had read about Mailer's work on The Executioner's Song and wrote to Mailer, offering to enlighten the author about Abbott's time behind bars and the conditions he was experiencing
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1976· 1 entry
Mailer went to Italy for several weeks to collaborate with Italian Spaghetti Western filmmaker Sergio Leone on an adaptation of the Harry Grey novel The Hoods
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1972· 2 entries
“marriage, sex, pornography, God, the Devil, rock, science, magic, violence, art, literary status, women”
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Joyce Carol Oates called Vietnam "Mailer's most important work"; it is "an outrageous little masterpiece" that "contains some of Mailer's finest writing" and thematically echoes John Milton's Paradise Lost
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1969· 4 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Armies of the Night (1969).
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Awarded National Book Award (1969).
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Ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York, finishing fourth in the Democratic primaries
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At the suggestion of feminist Gloria Steinem, his friend the political essayist Noel Parmentel, and others, Mailer ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic Party primary for mayor of New York City, allied with columnist Jimm
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded George Polk Award (1968).
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Signed the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the war
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1967· 1 entry
Its critical reception was mostly positive, with many critics, like John Aldridge in Harper's Magazine, calling the novel a masterpiece and comparing it to Joyce
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1963· 1 entry
Was to Beverly Bentley, a former model turned actress
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1962· 1 entry
And divorced in 1963, was the British heiress and journalist Lady Jeanne Campbell (1929–2007)
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1960· 4 entries
1964, 1968, 1972, 1992, and 1996, although his account of the 1996 Democratic convention has never been published
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Mailer was convicted of assault and served a three-year probation after he stabbed his wife Adele Morales with a penknife, nearly killing her
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“Superman Comes to the Supermarket”
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Mailer wrote "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" for Esquire magazine, an account of the emergence of John F
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1959· 1 entry
In his miscellany Advertisements for Myself, which he described as "The first work I wrote with a style I could call my own
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1956· 1 entry
Mailer met African-American author James Baldwin
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1955· 2 entries
And three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village
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Co-founded The Village Voice and was initially an investor and silent partner, but later he wrote a column called "Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers" from January to April 1956
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1952· 1 entry
Because of Mailer's infidelities with Adele Morales
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1943· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University (1939–1943).
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-01-31.
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