Norman Mailer 1 pictures

Writer, Actor, Director
Norman Mailer, the Brooklyn-born and -bred writer who fought for what he characterized as the "heavyweight championship" of American letters after the 1961 death of Ernest Hemingway, never came close to his dream of writing the Great American novel, but he was a colossus of American culture and literature in the 1960s, '70s and '80s. When he died ...

Born: January 31, 1923
Star sign: Aquarius
Known for: When We Were Kings (1996), Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987), The Executioner's Song (1982), Town Bloody Hall (1979)
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