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, 1948]] Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an United States American writer and innovator of the nonfictional novel.Norman Mailer was born to a Jewish family in Long Branch, New JerseyLong Branch, New Jersey. He was brought up in Brooklyn and began attending Harvard University in 1939, where he studied aeronautical engineering. At the university he became interested in writing and published his first story when he was 18.Mailer was drafted by the U.S. Armyarmy in World War II and served in the South Pacific. In 1948, just before enrolling in the Sorbonne in Paris, he wrote a book that made him world-famous: ''The Naked and the Dead,'' based on his personal experiences during World War II. It was hailed by many as one of the best American novels to come out of the war years and named one of the ":Category:Modern Library 100 best novels100 best novels" by the Modern Library.In the following years, Mailer worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood. Much of his work was refused by many publishers. But in the mid 1950s he became famous as an anti-establishment essayist, and he was one of the founders of The Village Voice in 1955villagevoice.com. In pieces such as ''The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster'' (1956) and ''Advertisements for Myself'' (1959), Mailer examined violence, hysteria, crime, and confusion in American society. Other famous works include: ''The Deer Park'' (1955), ''An American Dream'' (1965), ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' (1967), ''Armies of the Night'' (1968), (awarded a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionPulitzer Prize and National Book Award), ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' (1968), ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' (1970), ''The Prisoner of Sex'' (1971), ''The Executioner's Song'' (1979) (awarded a Pulitzer Prize for FictionPulitzer Prize), ''Ancient Evenings'' (1983), ''Harlot's Ghost'' (1991) and Oswald's Tale(1995).A number of Mailer's works, such as Armies of the Night are of a political nature. He established a reputation for political reportage, covering the Republican National ConventionRepublican and Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1992 and 1996. In 1967, he was arrested, briefly, for his involvement in Vietnam War#Opposition to the waranti-Vietnam demonstrations. Two years later, he ran unsuccessfully as an independent for Mayor of New York City allied with columnist Jimmy Breslin running for City Council President, with the agenda of New York City secession as the 51st state.In 1980, Norman Mailer supported convicted killer Jack Abbott's bid for parole, which was successful. He helped Abbott publish a book titled ''In the Belly of the Beast'', a collection of his letters to Mailer about his experiences in prison. However, Abbott committed a murder not long after his release and was returned to prison. Mailer was subjected to some criticism for his role in getting Jack Abbott released and in a 1992 interview in Buffalo News, Mailer said that his involvement with Abbott was "another episode in my life in which I can find nothing to cheer about or nothing to take pride in."Mailer is also noted as a biographer. His subjects have included Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, and Lee Harvey Oswald.Norman Mailer has been married six times, including, since 1980 to Norris Church, and has nine children.In 1960, Mailer stabbed his second wife Adele Morales with a penknife at a party. She was not seriously injured.Mailer appears in the documentary films "When We Were Kings" and "Hijacking Catastrophe", a film about 9/11 and the Iraq War. He is mentioned in the songs "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon, "sglyrics.myrmid.com - A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" by Simon & Garfunkel, "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken" by Lloyd Cole, "lyricsstyle.com - Santa Monica" by Savage Garden, and "Get By" by Talib Kweli. The Welsh punk band the Manic Street Preachers mention him alongside Sylvia Plath, Henry Miller, and Harold Pinter in their song "Faster" from on their 1994 album ''The Holy Bible (album)The Holy Bible''. He is also mentioned in Woody Allen's satirical futuristic film ''Sleeper'' (1973) in which Allen says to a scientist, "This is a picture of Norman Mailer. He left his ego to the Harvard Medical School!"In 2005, Mailer had a special guest star appearance, playing himself on the The WB Television NetworkWB television show ''Gilmore Girls''. The episode, titled "Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant", has the author being interviewed at the Dragonfly Inn, an establishment owned by the main character, Lorelai Gilmore. Also guest starring was Mailer's son, actor Stephen Mailer who played the interviewer. Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
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