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He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet. - Norman Mailer Attribution: Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. Lannie Madison, in Barbary Shore, ch. 21, Rinehart (1951). Description of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

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

Salem on Literature:

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

Literary Criticism:

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

Calendar of Literary Facts:

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