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	Author Norman Mailer dies at 84 - USATODAY.com
		Norman Mailer, one of the last surviving literary lions to roar out of World War II, died Saturday morning.
		Mailer believed in the supremacy of fiction over fact, but he wrote some of his best work as the "New Journalism" movement emerged in the mid-1960s.
		Mailer was short and handsomely craggy, with a bulldog chest.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2007-11-10-mailer_N.htm?csp=34 (1894 words)

	Norman Mailer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Norman sparring with Muhammad Ali, bickering with Gore Vidal, flirting with Gloria Steinem.
		Mailer never made it as a serious, influential philosopher; he was too emotional, too cavalier, too keen on the shifting metaphor (cancer, for instance, hops in his work from the figurative to the literal at a dizzying rate), and too good a writer.
		Mailer might not have made a revolution in consciousness, but by placing himself in the middle of history and writing about events with a novelist's imagination, he certainly revolutionized the way we look at the relationship between fact and fiction.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/99/09/02/NORMAN_MAILER.html (3882 words)

	Norman Mailer - MSN Encarta
		Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Mailer graduated from Harvard University in 1943 and later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.
		During the 1960s Mailer developed a vivid journalistic style with the intention of presenting actual events with all the drama and complexity found in fiction.
		Mailer’s other works of this era include Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968), about the Republican and Democratic national conventions of 1968, and Of a Fire on the Moon (1971), which recounts the first piloted moon landing.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761556549 (358 words)

	Norman Mailer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Norman Mailer's new novel, The Gospel According to the Son, arrives in bookstores this spring at the same moment as his ex-wife's memoir, The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer.
		The Last Party is Adele Mailer's chronicle of a decade of drug- and alcohol-fueled abuse and codependence, which led up to the fateful night when a psychotic Norman Mailer stabbed her, the mother of his two little girls, nearly to death.
		Norman Mailer writes a thoughtful, original exploration of the synoptic gospels, a book that challenges readers on the religious right and the atheist left with equally rich interpretive tasks.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/06-97/MAILER.html (1244 words)

	Norman Mailer
		Norman Mailer developed in the 1960s and 1970s a form of journalism, that combines actual events, autobiography, and political commentary with the richness of the novel.
		Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
		Mailer defined the hipster as a philosophical psychopath, and urban adventurer, who has adopted elements from fl culture and could be called "a White Negro".
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /nmailer.htm (2251 words)

	Norman Mailer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director who, along with Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe, is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism.
		Mailer was born to a Jewish family in Long Branch, New Jersey.
		Mailer was drafted into the Army in World War II and served in the South Pacific.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Mailer (1534 words)

	Norman Mailer Biography
		Mailer's works have aroused controversy because of both their stylish nonconformity and his controversial views of American life.
		Mailer was born on January 31, 1923, in Long Branch, New Jersey, of Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania.
		In 1946, Mailer was discharged, and, taking advantage of the G. Bill, he enrolled in several classes at the Sorbonne--shortly after completing work on a manuscript entitled The Naked and the Dead.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-013104-mailer.html (2291 words)

	On Campus - Harry Ransom Center acquires Norman Mailer archive
		Norman Mailer, 82, photographed in Austin where he announced the sale of his archives to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for $2.5 million, said his choice of The University of Texas at Austin drew in part on attachments from his wartime experiences.
		Ten thousand of Mailer’s letters, including his wartime letters to his family, personal and business correspondence, and the originals of letters sent to him from American writers, notables and three generations of readers are in the archive.
		Mailer has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice, for “The Armies of the Night” (1968) and “The Executioner’s Song” (1979), an account of the life and death of Utah murderer Gary Gilmore.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/ic/oncampus/2005/april/mailer.html (987 words)

	Poets&Writers, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mailer wrote a column for the Voice in which he cultivated his proclivity for shock, espousing, among other things, marijuana smoking and sexual promiscuity.
		In 1957 Mailer published his controversial essay "The White Negro," in which he introduced his conception of the hipster, the rebel who chooses to live outside of society rather than to suffocate within it.
		In that essay, Mailer argues that the hipster has an obligation to rebel against a conformist corporate society even though he will be perceived as amoral.
	www.pw.org /mag/hughes.htm (698 words)

	Amazon.ca: Barbary Shore: Books: Norman Mailer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mailer basically shrugged off a freat opportunity to cause a great conflict of mental confusion in Mike, to strongly contribute to the plot.
		Firstly, Norman Mailer is a much smarter man than I, secondly, Norman Mailer can write very well when he wants to, and thirdly, he can do a lot better than this.
		It seems that Mailer intends for his dialogue to advance the plot and to develop the characters.
	www.amazon.ca /Barbary-Shore-Norman-Mailer/dp/0375700390 (979 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Mailer's wrong when he says that only one-half of our country was for the war: 70% is one-half only if the whole is considered to be 140%.
		Norman Mailer has become Norman Maine, a former matinee idol whom loved ones best keep an eye on, because if this is the best he can now muster, he'll no doubt be walking purposely into the surf off Provincetown any day now.
		Mailer's prostate gradually supplants his ego as the largest gland in his body, he's going to have to realize, as is the case with all young lions who inevitably morph into Bert Lahr, that his alleged profundities are now being perceived as the early predictors of dementia.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110003453 (865 words)

	Norman Mailer St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Mailer's literary output has been extraordinary--over 30 volumes of fiction and nonfiction; his prolificness, in fact, is matched only by the prodigiousness of his public persona.
		Yet the essential Mailer remains elusive, a kind of curiosity to many of his critics and readers, who seem unable to agree on the literary merits of his books, the quality of his ideas, or his ultimate place in American letters.
		Drafted by the Army in early 1944, Mailer served as a rifleman with a combat unit in the South Pacific.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200776 (668 words)

	BBC News \| NEWSNIGHT \| Great impact of attacks on America
		Norman Mailer says 11 September was "larger than the atom bomb".
		Norman Mailer was one of the major US writers of the twentieth century, and came to prominence following his debut book "The Naked and the Dead" which drew on his experience in the Pacific during World War Two.
		Mr Mailer believes that this is the reason that George Bush speaks in terms of an axis of evil.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/newsnight/1801121.stm (416 words)

	American Masters . Norman Mailer \| PBS
		Mailer has not only published 39 books (including 11 novels), he has written plays (and staged them), screenplays (and directed and acted in them),poems (in THE NEW YORKER and underground journals), and attempted every sort of narrative form, including some he invented.
		Mailer received his S.B. degree, with honors, in engineering in 1943, and was drafted in early 1944.
		Mailer is, among other things, an unfrocked prophet full of foreboding about contemporary life; he celebrates the intuitional and instinctive and castigates corporate greed, plastic and the rape of nature.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/mailer_n.html (843 words)

	Norman Mailer
		The best place to begin talking about Mailer’s short stories may be with his own disingenuous claim that he agrees with critics who find his short fiction “neither splendid, unforgettable, nor distinguished.” He admits that “he does not have the interest, the respect, or the proper awe [for the form].
		Mailer seems to have decided that moral decisions have tangible effects on the universe, and that the senses provide a key to, but not a limit on, the spiritual world.
		Mailer demonstrates his scorn for self-absorbed navel-gazing through dialogue between Sam and his wife, in which they speak in a kind of psycho-babble as a substitute for real communication.
	www.uaf.edu /english/faculty/heyne/mailer.html (1450 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Norman Mailer’s Burden by David Horowitz
		It appears in an article about the Iraq war by Norman Mailer, which he calls, “The White Man Unburdened.” This is enough of a clue already, reflecting the author’s view that America is a racist, imperialist power -- and therefore can do no right.
		Mailer’s article asks the question, “Why did we go to war?” and sets up his answer by taking on the evidence from which some might conclude that we have indeed done right.
		Norman Mailer and the political left he speaks for was not exactly enthusiastic about the Gulf War in the first place, let alone any additional extrusion of American power into the Middle East.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8765 (1189 words)

	KC's Norman Mailer Page
		Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, N.J. Mailer grew up in Brooklyn and began attending Harvard University in 1939, it was while at university that he became interested in writing, he published his first story when he was 18.
		Mailer won 6% of the vote in a five man primary to become Mayor of New York.
		Norman Mailer won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters in 1969 and the Pulitzer Prize twice, once in 1969 and again in 1980.
	www.iol.ie /~kic (490 words)

	Amazon.com: The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing: Books: Norman Mailer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mailer doesn't exactly offer advice, apart from the occasional warning: "writing as a daily physical activity is not agreeable." Instead, in the first half, he teaches by example, providing a self-portrait emphasizing the process of writing some of his earliest novels, including The Naked and the Dead and The Deer Park.
		Mailer is like a great coach in this book, inciting the reader to be braver, to work harder, to want more, to cultivate appetite and a certain recklessness that is an antidote to what he calls the "paranoid perfection" imbued by writing programs.
		Mailer's life is like no other writer's, so it's hard to imagine that this will help budding authors, but there is something reassuring about his questioning the quality of some of his works, his sudden rise to fame after the Naked and the Dead became a bestseller.
	www.amazon.com /Spooky-Art-Some-Thoughts-Writing/dp/0394536487 (2566 words)

	Norman Mailer: 50 Years of Writing
		Norman Mailer marks his 50th anniversary in publishing this year as he reaches the age of 75.
		Mailer first created a sensation a half-century ago with The Naked and The Dead, credited as the first novel to honestly describe war.
		Mailer is certainly one of the greatest of this century, precisely for hs honesty and articulation...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_books/8561 (536 words)

	The Norman Mailer Society
		The theme of next year’s NMS conference is “Norman Mailer and Ethics, Spirituality,” but papers on other topics related to Mailer and his work will be presented.
		Mailer resided in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife of 33 years, Norris Church Mailer, and maintained an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.
		Mailer's interview with Steven Marcus appeared in the winter-spring 1964 number, reprinted in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988), edited by J. Michael Lennon.
	www.normanmailersociety.com (1063 words)

	Norman Mailer
		Mailer's book was a huge success, and he was lionized by the press in that pre-television era in a way that no first novelist would be today.
		But for Norman, the 1950s were only a foretaste of the adulation that covered him in the 1960s; that unrestful era was "the time of his time." Meetings, protests, marches--Norman Mailer was everywhere.
		Norman revealed that the theme of his study was that the right wing had murdered the sex goddess to frame Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
	www.americanlegends.com /authors/norman_mailer.html (1274 words)

	Norman Mailer
		Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923, in Long Branch, New Jersey.
		When Mailer was four, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, and began attending Harvard University in 1939, where he studied aeronautical engineering.
		In 1944, Mailer was drafted into the Army during World War II and served in the South Pacific.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Norman_Mailer.html (371 words)

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		The career of prominent American literary figure Norman Mailer is "book-ended" with the leftist provocateur's musings on war.
		Mailer's political dabbling during that era also found him running unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City as an Independent in 1968.
		Mailer pleaded before Abbott's parole board, and subsequently, in 1981, Abbot was released.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=674 (426 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Mailer sells archives to Texas university for $2.5M (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Norman Mailer, the opinionated American writer who was both loved and loathed throughout his writing career, has sold his archives to the University of Texas.
		Mailer's mother, Fannie, began stashing away her son's paraphernalia and paperwork early on in his career as a writer, said Robert Lucid, the writer's authorized biographer.
		Mailer said he chose the Texas research centre, which also holds the Woodward-Bernstein Watergate papers, because it "has one of the finest, if not the finest, collections of American literary archives in the world."
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/04/25/mailerarchives050425.html (1233 words)

	Open Source » Blog Archive » Norman Mailer’s ‘Long View’
		Mailer has lived half his life in the shadow of that moment of drunken violent stupidity, so best to be clear about what actually happened and not beard him with any more than he has to answer for.
		Mailer has spent his life (insofar as I can see) engaging women — respecting their ability to supply the half of him he, as a man, cannot himself provide, just as he offers his half to them.
		Mailer’s great value to his time was his belief that he could take on the red eye and beat it.
	www.radioopensource.org /norman-mailers-long-view (6855 words)

	Norman Mailer Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York in what he calls a "typical middle class Jewish family." His father was an accountant, his mother assisted an uncle in running a small trucking company.
		Mailer declined to press charges and Mailer was given a suspended sentence.
		In the 1960s, Mailer found a renewed sense of purpose in reporting on the social upheaval associated with the civil rights and anti-war movements, the rising counterculture and the sexual revolution.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/mai0bio-1 (1106 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Norman Mailer
		Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
		Mailer won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for The Armies of the Night and was awarded the Pulitzer prize again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song.
		Norman Mailer's The Time of Our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America's greatest writers.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=18718 (898 words)

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