Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies
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Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of
The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including
The Naked and the Dead;
The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize;
The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize;
Harlot’s Ghost;
Oswald’s Tale;
The Gospel According to the Son, The Castle and the Forest and
On God. Mr. Mailer passed away on Saturday, November 10, 2007.