Norman mailer biography novel
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Norman Mailer
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This was a shambolic upturned banquet of a life of a man who was able to live exactly as he wanted. So many books, so many wives, so many girlfriends, so many children, so much earned and spent, the energy and throughput of this life fryst vatten astounding. Look at the subjects covered in the books – these are just the big ones - WW2 , the counterculture , 1960s/70s politics in all its mania, the måne landings , feminism , Marilyn Monroe, boxing, hip hop culture – The Faith of Graffiti (1973 book!!), true crime, Ancient Egypt , the CIA and the Cold War , JFK, Picasso, Christianity…. on and on. Norman didn’t have an OFF switch. His mill was vast and he ground everything. He ran for mayor of New York in the Democratic primary (got 5% of the vote) – he really thought he wanted to be a politician, do some actual good instead of all this scribbling. He made three
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When Norman Mailer was inducted into the Army, in March, 1944, he was a freshly married twenty-one-year-old Harvard graduate, a slight young man of five feet eight inches and a hundred and thirty-five pounds. In the previous few years, he had published some stories and written a play and two novels (one of them published, in a typescript facsimile, as “A Transit to Narcissus,” in 1978). Even as a student, he thought of himself as a professional writer, and from the day that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, in December, 1941, he had wanted to write a big book about the war. He was sent for basic training to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where many of the men were from Pennsylvania, the South, and the Upper Midwest. Mailer was from middle-class Jewish Brooklyn; he had landed in the great working-class Gentile world, and was eager to observe. He canvassed the recruits about their sex lives, taking notes on a yellow legal pad. (He discovered that many of them did not believe in foreplay.) M
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Norman Mailer
For 19th century dentist, see Norman William Kingsley.
American writer (1923–2007)
Norman Mailer | |
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Mailer in 1967 | |
| Born | Nachem Malech Mailer (1923-01-31)January 31, 1923 Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | November 10, 2007(2007-11-10) (aged 84) New York City, U.S. |
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| Education | Harvard University (BS) |
| Period | 1941–2007 |
| Notable works | |
| Spouses | Beatrice Silverman (m. ; div. 1952)Adele Morales (m. 1954; div. 1962)Jeanne Campbell (m. 1962; div. 1963)Beverly Bentley (m. 1963; div. 1980)Carol Stevens (m. ; div. ) |
| Children | 9, including Susan, Kate, Michael |