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Norman Mailer
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over…
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer is considered an innovator of "creative non-fiction" or "New Journalism", along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his views through his novels, journalism, frequent press appearances and essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is "The White Negro". In 1955, he and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. In 1960, Mailer was convicted of assault and served a three-year probation after he stabbed his wife Adele Morales with a penknife, nearly killing her. In 1969, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York. Mailer was married six times and had nine children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2023
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
The Capote Tapes
Movie Self (voice) (archive footage)
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2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie Self
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2015
Best of Enemies
Movie Self (archival)
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2014
The 50 Year Argument
Movie Himself
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2012
Norman Mailer: The American
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower
Movie Self
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2007
365 Day Project
Movie Self
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2006
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
Movie Self - Writer & Filmmaker
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2005
The Outsider
Movie Self
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2005
Inside Deep Throat
Movie Self
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2003
The Education of Gore Vidal
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
Movie Executive Producer
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2002
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story
TV show Writer
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2002
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV show Self
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2001
New York in the Fifties
Movie Self
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2001
L'étrange festival
Movie Himself
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2000
American Tragedy
Movie Writer
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2000
Oh My America
Movie Himself
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2000
Gilmore Girls
TV show Norman Mailer
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2000
Mailer on Mailer
Movie Himself
- 2000
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1999
maybrit illner
TV show Self
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1999
Cremaster 2
Movie Harry Houdini
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1996
When We Were Kings
Movie Self
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1996
Baby Trouble Hole
Movie Interviewed
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1994
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Movie Self
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1988
Hello Actors Studio
Movie Self
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1988
King Lear
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1987
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Movie Writer
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1985
Empire City
Movie Self
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1982
The Executioner's Song
TV show Writer
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1982
The Executioner's Song
Movie Book
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1981
Ragtime
Movie Stanford White
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1981
Chytilová Versus Forman
Movie Self
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1980
Marilyn: The Untold Story
Movie Book
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1979
Town Bloody Hall
Movie Himself
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1979
NDR Talk Show
TV show Self
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1975
PBS News Hour
TV show Self
