DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Norman Mailer Author

Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. The Armies of the Night won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He died in November, 2007. J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and serves as Norman Mailer's literary executor and archivist. The author of six books on the works of Norman Mailer, he is the president of the Norman Mailer Society.