Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, filmmaker, and actor. He gained early recognition with the publication of his novel The Naked and the Dead in 1948. Over the course of his six-decade career, Mailer wrote 11 best-selling books, with at least one published in each of the seven decades after World War II. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night earned him the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award. Another notable work is The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1979. Mailer's writing style, often categorized as 'creative non-fiction' or 'New Journalism,' blended the elements of literary fiction with factual journalism.