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Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early and wide 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. In over six decades of work, 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.
Birth Name
Norman Kingsley Mailer
Born
Wednesday, 31 January 1923
Died
Saturday, 10 November 2007
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Story of Late Night | Self | 2021 |
| The Capote Tapes | Self | 2020 |
| Where's My Roy Cohn? | Self | 2019 |
| What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Self | 2019 |
| Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Self | 2018 |
| The Seventies | Self - Novelist | 2015 |
| Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal | Self - Author | 2015 |
| Regarding Susan Sontag | Self | 2014 |
| The 50 Year Argument | Himself / Self - Contributor | 2014 |
| The Sixties | Self - episode of Dick Cavett Show | 2013 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Tough Guys Don't Dance | 1987 |
| Maidstone | 1971 |
| Wild 90 | 1968 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story | 2002 |
| Maidstone | 1971 |
| Wild 90 | 1968 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1983 | Emmy | Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special | Nominated |
