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Norman Mailer (1923–2007)

Autor(a) de The Naked and the Dead

147+ Works 22,331 Membros 325 Críticas 43 Favorited

About the Author

Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and mostrar mais acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years. Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He published his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, in 2007. He died of acute renal failure on November 10, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: 1967 photo by Bernard Gotfryd

Obras por Norman Mailer

The Naked and the Dead (1948) 4,120 exemplares
The Executioner's Song (1979) 2,878 exemplares
Ancient Evenings (1983) 1,278 exemplares
The Armies of the Night (1968) 1,227 exemplares
The Castle in the Forest (2007) 1,214 exemplares
Harlot's Ghost (1991) 1,190 exemplares
An American Dream (1965) — Autor — 1,063 exemplares
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984) 1,059 exemplares
The Gospel According to the son (1997) 874 exemplares
The Fight (1975) 747 exemplares
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (1995) 631 exemplares
Marilyn: A Biography (1973) 516 exemplares
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968) 514 exemplares
The Deer Park (1955) 485 exemplares
Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) 385 exemplares
Advertisements For Myself (1959) 337 exemplares
Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) 314 exemplares
Barbary Shore (1951) 271 exemplares
The Prisoner of Sex (1971) 236 exemplares
The Time of Our Time (1998) — Autor — 201 exemplares
Why Are We at War? (2003) 189 exemplares
Cannibals and Christians (1966) 152 exemplares
The Presidential Papers (1963) 152 exemplares
On God: An Uncommon Conversation (2007) 140 exemplares
Of Women and Their Elegance (1980) 83 exemplares
The Faith of Graffiti (1974) 78 exemplares
St. George and the Godfather (1972) 69 exemplares
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014) 65 exemplares
Existential Errands (1972) 61 exemplares
The white negro (1957) 49 exemplares
RFK Funeral Train (2000) 49 exemplares
Pieces and Pontifications (1818) 46 exemplares
Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1967) 43 exemplares
Some Honorable Men (1976) 43 exemplares
Deaths for the ladies (1962) 34 exemplares
The Deer Park: A Play (1967) 33 exemplares
The Idol and the Octopus (1968) 22 exemplares
Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (2003) 20 exemplares
Maidstone (1967) 20 exemplares
The Naked and the Dead, Part 2 (1978) 20 exemplares
The Naked and the Dead, Part 1 (1978) 18 exemplares
Pontifications: Interviews (1982) 14 exemplares
Essential Mailer (1982) 12 exemplares
Pieces (1982) 10 exemplares
The Bullfight (1967) 7 exemplares
V-Best (2005) 5 exemplares
The Executioner's Song, Part 1 (1980) 5 exemplares
Tough Guys Don't Dance [1987 film] (1987) — Director — 5 exemplares
The Executioner's Song, Part 2 (1981) 4 exemplares
How the wimp won the war (1991) 4 exemplares
The Executioner's Song [1982 TV movie] (2014) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Strange Love (1963) 3 exemplares
Shika no sono 3 exemplares
New short novels 2 3 exemplares
A hóhér dala 1. (1984) 2 exemplares
Norman Mailer (1900) 2 exemplares
A hóhér dala 2. (1984) 2 exemplares
Rasha to shisha. 1. 2 exemplares
The last night: A story (1984) 2 exemplares
Drevne veceri I-II 1 exemplar
Black Messiah (1981) 1 exemplar
New York graffiti (1974) 1 exemplar
Ciplak ve Ölü (2015) 1 exemplar
Rey del Ring 1 exemplar
Vidal vs. Mailer (2014) 1 exemplar
Barbarkysten - II 1 exemplar
Barbarkysten - I 1 exemplar
Wild 90 [Region 2] 1 exemplar
Kiseki (1998) 1 exemplar
Fuera De La Ley (2014) 1 exemplar
1989 1 exemplar
Dávné večery. 2 (1995) 1 exemplar
Dávné večery. 1 (1995) 1 exemplar
Cuentos 1 exemplar
A szőke bombázó (2000) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Naked Lunch (1962) — Contribuidor, algumas edições6,982 exemplares
The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (1992) — Contribuidor — 1,459 exemplares
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (2007) — Contribuidor — 596 exemplares
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contribuidor — 593 exemplares
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison (1981) — Introdução — 379 exemplares
The New Journalism (1973) — Contribuidor — 334 exemplares
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969, Volume 1 (1998) — Contribuidor — 323 exemplares
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contribuidor — 214 exemplares
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999) — Contribuidor — 191 exemplares
Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (1998) — Contribuidor — 187 exemplares
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
Writers at Work 03 (1967) — Interviewee — 142 exemplares
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The Best of Abbie Hoffman (1993) — Prefácio — 109 exemplares
Papa: A Personal Memoir (1976) — Prefácio, algumas edições101 exemplares
Writers: Photographs by Sally Soames (1900) — Preface — 100 exemplares
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (2013) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
Great Esquire Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
The Beats (1960) — Autor, algumas edições62 exemplares
The Jewish Writer (1998) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Sting Like a Bee : The Muhammad Ali Story (1971) — Prefácio — 48 exemplares
Unknown California (1985) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Ragtime [1981 film] (1981) 40 exemplares
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Last Tango in Paris: The Screenplay With Photographs From The Film (1973) — Contribuidor, algumas edições; Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
When We Were Kings [1996 film] (1997) 34 exemplares
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Great World War II Stories: 50th Anniversary Collection (1989) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Inside Deep Throat [2005 Documentary] (2005) — Self — 17 exemplares
I'm a Little Special (1999) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Kennedys: Stories of Life and Death from an American Family (2001) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (1952) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Homicidal Acts (1988) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Mystery in the Mainstream: An Anthology of Literary Crimes (1986) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Paris Review 31 1964 Winter-Spring (1964) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Various Temptations (1948) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Big Table 3 (1959) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Stories of Scarlet Women (1962) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Ghosts and Ghastlies (1976) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Mailer, Norman
Nome legal
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
Mailer, Nachem Malech (birth)
Data de nascimento
1923-01-31
Data de falecimento
2007-11-10
Localização do túmulo
Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Causa da morte
acute renal failure
Locais de residência
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
Harvard College (BS|Aeronautical Engineering|1943)
University of Paris
Ocupações
novelist
essayist
journalist
director
screenwriter
actor
Relações
Silverman, Beatrice (spouse, 1944-1952)
Morales, Adele (spouse, 1954-1961)
Campbell, Jeanne (spouse, 1962-1963)
Bentley, Beverly (spouse, 1963-1980)
Stevens, Carol (spouse, 1980-1980)
Mailer, Norris Church (spouse, 1980-2007) (mostrar todos 7)
Malaquais, Jean (friend, translator)
Organizações
The Village Voice (co-founder)
United States Army (WWII)
Prémios e menções honrosas
National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2005)
State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (1991-93)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1960)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2000)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1967) (mostrar todos 13)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1969, 1980)
National Book Award (1969)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1973)
George Polk Award (1969)
National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor in Literature (1976)
Harvard University's Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts (1970, 1994)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2002)

Membros

Discussions

Norman Mailer em Legacy Libraries (Fevereiro 2014)

Críticas

Zaire, 1974. Muhammad Ali, que perdera o título mundial dos pesos pesados por se recusar a lutar no Vietnã, desafia o campeão George Foreman: é a autonomia negra versus o establishment branco. Um dos relatos mais notáveis já escritos sobre eventos esportivos, A luta é também um retrato magistral das tensões políticas dos anos 70. Mas é pela força da palavra que este livro faz o coração acelerar. Norman Mailer, prêmio Pulitzer em 69 e 80, consegue a proeza de nos fazer acompanhar a maior luta de boxe do século XX como se nenhum de nós conhecesse seu resultado.… (mais)
 
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Listas

1960s (4)
1940s (1)
1970s (1)

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Robert Merideth Contributor
John M. Muste Contributor
Donald L. Kaufmann Contributor
Roger Ramsey Contributor
Richard D. Finholt Contributor
Laura Adams Contributor
David F. Burg Contributor
John Stark Contributor
J. F. Kliphuis Translator
Arto Häilä Translator
Ettore Capriolo Translator
David Brisk Translator
Vidar Forsberg Cover artist
Bob Lawrie Cover designer
Paul Baudisch Translator
Frans Bruning Translator
Milena Benini Translator
Johanna Thomsen Translator
Walter Kahnert Translator
Anne Rabinovitch Translator
Marta Martín Translator

Estatísticas

Obras
147
Also by
57
Membros
22,331
Popularidade
#951
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
325
ISBN
868
Línguas
23
Marcado como favorito
43

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