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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past. - Norman Mailer Attribution: Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. Gen. Edward Cummings, in The Naked and the Dead, pt. 1, ch. 6, Rinehart (1948). in conversation with Lt. Robert Hearn.

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Norman Mailer

Titles by Norman Mailer:

• Advertisements for Myself
• The Executioner's Song
• The Naked and the Dead
• Tough Guys Dont Dance

Salem on History:

• Norman Mailer

Encyclopedia:

• Mailer, Norman (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Mailer, Norman Kingsley (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• The Lives of Norman Mailer (Magill Book Reviews)
• The Lives of Norman Mailer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Norman Mailer (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Norman Mailer (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Norman Mailer (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Norman Mailer (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Norman Mailer (The Sixties in America)
• Norman Mailer (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 28) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 14) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 111) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Mailer, Norman (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Norman Mailer is born
• Commentary, a monthly magazine of Jewish cultural advancement, begins publication; notable early contributors include Norman Mailer, Lionel Trilling, and Bernard Malamud
• Norman Mailer publishes The Naked and the Dead
• Norman Mailer receives the Pulitzer Prize in letters-general nonfiction for Armies of the Night
• Norman Mailer receives the Pulitzer Prize in literature for The Executioner's Song
• Norman Mailer publishes The Executioner's Song