Education
He graduated from Boys' High School.
He entered Harvard University in 1939, where he studied aeronautical engineering.
Legendary American writer Norman Mailer's grave in Provincetown.
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director essayist journalist novelist playwright screenwriter poet
He graduated from Boys' High School.
He entered Harvard University in 1939, where he studied aeronautical engineering.
Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the style and devices of literary fiction onto fact-based journalism. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with John Wilcock, Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he received the lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
Novels
The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart, 1948.
Barbary Shore. New York: Rinehart, 1951.
The Deer Park. New York: Putnam's, 1955.
An American Dream. New York: Dial, 1965.
Why Are We in Vietnam? New York: Putnam's, 1967.
Of Women and Their Elegance. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1980
Ancient Evenings. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
Tough Guys Don't Dance. New York: Random House, 1984.
Harlot's Ghost. New York: Random House, 1991.
The Gospel According to the Son. New York: Random House, 1997.
The Castle in the Forest. New York: Random House, 2007.
Plays
The Deer Park: A Play. New York: Dial, 1967.
Short Stories
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer. New York: Dell, 1967.
Non-fiction
General non-fiction
The Armies of the Night. New York: New American Library, 1968
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. New York: New American Library, 1968
Of a Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970
The Prisoner of Sex. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971
St. George and The Godfather. New York: Signet Classics, 1972
The Faith of Graffiti. New York: Praeger, 1974
The Fight. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975
The Executioner's Song Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980
Why Are We At War?. New York: Random House, 2003
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing. New York: Random House, 2003
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. New York: Nation Books, 2006
On God: An Uncommon Conversation. New York: Random House, 2007
Essay collections
Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnam's, 1959.
The Presidential Papers.New York: Putnam, 1963.
Cannibals and Christians. New York: Dial, 1966.
Pieces and Pontifications. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982.
Biographies
Marilyn: A Biography.[a] New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery. New York: Random House, 1996
Famous essays and articles
"The White Negro". San Francisco: City Lights, 1957.
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He covered the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1992, and 1996, although his account of the 1996 Democratic convention has never been published. In the early 1960s he was fixated on the figure of President John F. Kennedy, whom he regarded as an "existential hero."
Norman Mailer was married six times and had nine children. He fathered eight children by his various wives and also raised and informally adopted Norris' son from another marriage, Matthew.
Norman's first marriage was in 1944, to Beatrice Silverman, whom he divorced in 1952. They had one child, Susan.
Mailer married his second wife, Adele Morales, in 1954. They had two daughters, Danielle and Elizabeth. Mailer was violent to his wife. He was at one time involuntarily committed to Bellevue Hospital for 17 days; his wife would not press charges, and he later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault, and was given a suspended sentence. While in the short term, Morales made a physical recovery, in 1997 she published a memoir of their marriage entitled The Last Party, which recounted her husband stabbing her at a party and the aftermath.
This incident has been a focal point for feminist critics of Mailer, who point to themes of sexual violence in his work.
His third wife, whom he married in 1962, and divorced in 1963, was the British heiress and journalist Lady Jeanne Campbell (1929–2007), the only daughter of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll and a granddaughter of the press baron Lord Beaverbrook. The couple had a daughter, Kate Mailer, who is an actress.
His fourth marriage, in 1963, was to Beverly Bentley, a former model turned actress. She was the mother of his producer son Michael Mailer and his actor son Stephen Mailer. They divorced in 1980.
His fifth wife was Carol Stevens, a jazz singer whom he married on November 7, 1980, and divorced in Haiti on November 8, 1980, thereby legitimating their daughter Maggie, born in 1971.
His sixth and last wife, whom he married in 1980, was Norris Church Mailer (née Barbara Davis, 1949–2010), an art teacher. They had one son together, John Buffalo Mailer, a writer and actor, and Mailer informally adopted Matthew Norris, her son by her first husband, Larry Norris. Living in Brooklyn, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts with Mailer, Church worked as a model, wrote and painted.
