About Norman Mailer
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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.
About Jonathan Lethem
JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of eight novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others.