Norman Mailer
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Born
1923
Died
2007
Publications
Novels, journalism, essays
Writing languages
English
Literature
• The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Novels
• The Naked and the Dead (1948)
• The Executioner's Song (1980)
American Literature
• The Naked and the Dead (1948)
• The Armies of the Night (1968)
• The Executioner's Song (1980)
• Harlot's Ghost (1991)
Crime and Mystery
• The Executioner's Song (1980)
Journalism
• The Executioner's Song (1980)
Literary Fiction
• The Naked and the Dead (1948)
True Crime
• The Executioner's Song (1980)
The Naked and the Dead, novel, 1948
Barbary Shore, novel, 1951
The Man Who Studied Yoga, novella, 1951, published in New Short Novels 2
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster, essay, 1957
Advertisements for Myself, story, essay and poetry collection, 1959
Deaths for the Ladies (And Other Disasters), poetry, 1962
Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969, letters, 1963
The Presidential Papers, essay, poetry and letter collection, 1963
An American Dream, novel, 1965
Cannibals and Christians, essay collection, 1966
The Deer Park: A Play, play, 1967
Why Are We in Vietnam?, novel, 1967
The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer, essay, 1967
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer story and novella collection, 1967
"The Killer", "Truth and Being: Nothing and Time", "A Calculus at Heaven", "Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out", "The Greatest Thing in the World", "Maybe Next Year", "The Paper House", "The Notebook", "The Language of Men", "The Patron Saint of MacDougal Alley", "The Dead Gook", "Great in the Hay", "The Last Night", "It", "The Shortest Novel of Them All", "Ministers of Taste", "The Test", "Upsetting the Boat", "The Time of Her Time", "The Man Who Studied Yoga"
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History, nonfiction novel, 1968
The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, nonfiction, 1968
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968, nonfiction novel, 1968
The Prisoner of Sex, essay collection, 1971
Of a Fire on the Moon, nonfiction, 1971
Maidstone: A Mystery, screenplay, 1971
King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century, nonfiction, 1971
St. George and The Godfather, nonfiction, 1972
Marilyn, biography, 1973
The Faith of Graffiti, essay collection, 1974
The Fight, nonfiction, 1975
Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller, essay collection, 1976
A Transit to Narcissus, novel, 1978, written in 1943
The Executioner's Song, nonfiction novel, 1979
Of Women and Their Elegance, novel, 1980
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots, nonfiction, 1980
Pieces and Pontifications, essay collection, 1982
Ancient Evenings, novel, 1983
Tough Guys Don't Dance, novel, 1984
Harlot's Ghost, novel, 1991
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, nonfiction, 1995
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography, biography, 1995
The Gospel According to the Son, novel, 1997
The Time of Our Time, excerpts from works, 1998
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing, essay collection, 2003
Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings, poetry collection, 2003
Why Are We At War?, essay collection, 2003
The Castle in the Forest, novel, 2007
The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, letters, 2014
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer, essay collection, 2013
Lipton's: A Marijuana Journal, journal, 2004, written in 1954–1955
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