Norman Mailer

Born in 1923, Norman Mailer was one of the most important American writers of the post–World War II era and a leading intellectual since the 1960s. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was the eleventh of his books to appear on the New York Times bestseller list. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was on the Times list for sixty-three weeks and has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007.