Norman Mailer

Finalist, 1972 National Book Awards
Finalist, National Book Awards 1981
Finalist, National Book Awards 1980
Finalist, National Book Awards 1969
Winner, National Book Awards 1969
Finalist, National Book Awards 1968

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
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Of a Fire on the Moon

Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer, book cover
ISBN 9780316544115 Taschen America, LLC / Little Brown and Company

A classic chronicle of America's reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine. More about this book >

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The Prisoner of Sex

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ISBN 9780451048226 Signet

Here, by America's foremost candidate for the Nobel Prize, is the book that some fifteen years ago created a firestorm among true believers of the women's liberation movement, and which on rereading and contemplation emerges as one of the most sensible, sensitive and probing works on the ageless dialectic of man, woman, man-woman ever to be written. More about this book >

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Why Are We in Vietnam?

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ISBN 978-0399591754 Random House Trade Paperbacks /
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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.

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