Norman Mailer

Personal Info

Birthday

January 31, 1923

Day of Death

2007-11-10

(84 years old)

Place of Birth

Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

Norman Mailer

Biography

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.

Known For

Gilmore Girls

Ragtime

Maidstone

Cremaster 2

Baby Trouble Hole

Wild 90

Beyond the Law

Filmography

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
2006
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
2005
The Outsider
as Self
Inside Deep Throat
as Self
2003
The Education of Gore Vidal
as Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
as Self (archive footage)
2001
New York in the Fifties
as Self
L'étrange festival
as Himself
2000
Oh My America
as Himself
Mailer on Mailer
as Himself
1999
Cremaster 2
as Harry Houdini
1996
When We Were Kings
as Self
Baby Trouble Hole
as Interviewed
1988
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
King Lear
as Self (uncredited)
1985
Empire City
as Self
1981
Ragtime
as Stanford White
1979
Town Bloody Hall
as Himself
1971
Maidstone
as Norman T. Kingsley
1968
Beyond the Law
as Lt. Francis Xavier Pope
Wild 90
as Prince
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
as Self