Norman Mailer
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 as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Capote Tapes as Self (voice) (archive footage)
- 2019 · What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
- 2014 · The 50 Year Argument as Himself
- 2013 · Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
- 2012 · Norman Mailer: The American as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower as Self
- 2007 · 365 Day Project as
- 2006 · Marilyn Monroe: Still Life as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
- 2005 · The Outsider as Self
- 2005 · Inside Deep Throat as Self
- 2003 · The Education of Gore Vidal as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- 2001 · New York in the Fifties as Self
- 2001 · L'étrange festival as Himself
- 2000 · Oh My America as Himself
- 2000 · Gilmore Girls as Norman Mailer
- 2000 · Mailer on Mailer as Himself
- 2000 · Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale as
- 1999 · Maybrit Illner as Self
- 1999 · Cremaster 2 as Harry Houdini
- 1996 · When We Were Kings as Self
- 1996 · Baby Trouble Hole as Interviewed
- 1988 · Hello Actors Studio as Self
- 1987 · King Lear as The Great Writer
- 1985 · Empire City as Self
- 1981 · Ragtime as Stanford White
- 1979 · Town Bloody Hall as Himself
- 1979 · NDR Talk Show as Self
- 1975 · PBS News Hour as Self
- 1975 · Apostrophes as Self
- 1973 · Year of the Woman as
- 1971 · Maidstone as Norman T. Kingsley
- 1970 · Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising as
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · Beyond the Law as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
- 1968 · Wild 90 as Prince
- 1968 · Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? as Self
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1959 · The David Susskind Show as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self