'''Norman Mailer''' (Born Nachum Malech Mailer in Long Branch, [[New Jersey]] 1923 - New York 2007) [[Jewish]]-[[American]] [[writer]], son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer. [[Liberal]] and controversial, he won several American literature awards. His first novel was ''The Naked and the Dead''. Other works were ''Armies of the Night'' and ''The Executioner's Song''. For these two novels he won two [[Pulitzer Prize]]s (1969 and 1980). He also wrote ''An American Dream'', which was rather notorious for his lead character murdering his wife as well as buggering his ex-Nazi maid while being praised for it. In total, he wrote over 40 books. | '''Norman Mailer''' (Born Nachum Malech Mailer in Long Branch, [[New Jersey]] 1923 - New York 2007) [[Jewish]]-[[American]] [[writer]], son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer. [[Liberal]] and controversial, he won several American literature awards. His first novel was ''The Naked and the Dead''. Other works were ''Armies of the Night'' and ''The Executioner's Song''. For these two novels he won two [[Pulitzer Prize]]s (1969 and 1980). He also wrote ''An American Dream'', which was rather notorious for his lead character murdering his wife as well as buggering his ex-Nazi maid while being praised for it. In total, he wrote over 40 books. |