Mailer, Norman Kingsley
Mailer, Norman Kingsley ( 1923 – ),American novelist and essayist, educated at Harvard, whose naturalistic first novel The Naked and the Dead ( 1948 ) was based on his experiences with the army in the Pacific. It was followed by other novels, including Barbary Shore ( 1951 ), The Deer Park ( 1955 ), and An American Dream ( 1965 ). Most of his work is of a more unorthodox genre, mixing journalism, autobiography, political commentary, and fictional passages in a wide range of styles. (See Advertisements for Myself, 1959 ; The Presidential Papers, 1963 ; The Armies of the Night, 1968 ; and many other titles.) The Executioner's Song ( 1979 ), a lengthy non-fiction account of a murderer, bears some resemblance to In Cold Blood by Capote . (See also faction .) His lengthy and ambitious novel Ancient Evenings ( 1983 ; described by A. Burgess as...
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