Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, into a Jewish family that moved to Brooklyn in 1927. He entered Harvard at sixteen to study engineering, served in the Philippines in a reconnaissance unit, and at twenty-five published the book he drew from it. Co-founder of the Village Voice, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New York in 1969, he married six times, wounded his second wife with a knife in 1960 and received a suspended sentence. He died in New York in 2007.

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• NovelThe Naked and the DeadNorman Mailer · 1948Literature