Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer by David Levine

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; and The Castle in the Forest.

From the Review

August 11, 2005: Blocked (letter)

November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future

December 18, 2003: JFK's Assassination (letter)

August 14, 2003: Bush & Terror: An Exchange with Norman Mailer

July 17, 2003: The White Man Unburdened

March 27, 2003: Only in America*

December 17, 1998: A Man Half Full

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

February 15, 1996: The Case of Wei Jingsheng (letter)

July 13, 1995: 'The Amateur Hit Man' (letter)

May 11, 1995: The Amateur Hit Man*

February 11, 1993: An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center (letter)

September 26, 1991: The Espionage Lesson*

March 15, 1990: Celebrating Mencken (letter)

August 14, 1986: Arrests in Poland (letter)

February 13, 1986: 'The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State' Two Views*

October 11, 1984: The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski (letter)

June 11, 1981: Discovering Jack H. Abbott*

June 26, 1980: In Prison*

December 7, 1978: In a Cuban Prison (letter)

November 24, 1977: Words for the Shah (letter)

March 18, 1976: Set Theory* (poem)

June 12, 1975: A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam

August 9, 1973: Married to Marilyn

May 17, 1973: A Transit to Narcissus*

Last Tango in Paris directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)

November 2, 1972: The Genius

June 19, 1969: The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy (letter)

March 27, 1969: Protest (letter)

May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)

March 14, 1968: Protest (letter)

April 28, 1966: Pearl or Jew? (letter)

December 26, 1963: The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After*

October 17, 1963: The Mary McCarthy Case

The Group by Mary McCarthy

February 1, 1963: Punching Papa

That Summer in Paris by Morley Callaghan

From New York Review Books

Miami and the Siege of Chicago
1968 was one of the most tumultuous in American politics and society, the effects of which reverberate today. Norman Mailer was on the ground, covering Nixon's relentlessly stage-managed nomination in Miami as well as the Democratic convention in Chicago—where the violence at the heart of the American dream exploded on the streets.

Books by Norman Mailer

The Time of Our Time (1998)
The Gospel According to the Son (1997)
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (1995)
Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man: An Interpretative Biography (1995)
Advertisements for Myself (1992)
Harlot's Ghost (1991)
Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988)
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984)
Ancient Evenings (1983)
Pieces and Pontifications (1982)
Of Women and Their Elegance (1980)
The Executioner's Song (1979)
The Presidential Papers (1976)
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (1976)
The Fight (1975)
Marilyn, a Biography (1973)
Barbary Shore (1971)
The Naked and the Dead (1970)
The Armies of the Night; History As a Novel, the Novel As History (1968)