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Norman Mailer [] (online) [] (online) [] (print) [] (print) Goldstone, Herbert. The Novels of Norman Mailer.March 1956. //World Book Advanced.// Web. 7 Dec. 2010. [] [] []
 * 1) He was influenced by the war
 * 2) First author to write about World War II
 * 3) He has wrote books about war, politics, sex, and Hollywood
 * 4) His book, //The Naked and the Dead,// was his first novel
 * 5) He thought that the war brought out all of the conflicts and tension of the Americas, so his writing, in a way, mirrored America
 * 6) He writes so that we can see form a point of view from the soldier and the officer
 * 7) He showed bad relations between officers and enlisted men, preoccupation with sex, the distrust of women, strong opinions on war, the purposes of war, the fear of death, and the feeling that no individual matters
 * 8) He goes into strong detail
 * 9) His second book was Barbary Shore
 * 10) In this book, there is a man who happens to be a FBI agent
 * 11) There is a character who is an ex-communist and GPU agent
 * 12) He has dropped out of the party and and gone underground
 * 13) The characters have a political argument, which is the central point
 * 14) His politics are false though
 * 15) He takes the politics too seriously
 * 16) This is one of the best novels to read about politics, where you can avoid political fanaticism
 * 17) He find the The sources of human feeling in human realities deeper than politics
 * 18) He does that so that life appears in his pages as life
 * 19) He writes so that life does not appear as a political blueprint
 * 20) Other books about this topic, do not have deep roots
 * 21) Grew up in NYC
 * 22) He went through the great depression
 * 23) The Deer Park has a character who is a homosexual pimp
 * 24) He wrote a short story about a girl who had an encounter anal intercourse
 * 25) Norman had a lot to do with politics in the 60's
 * 26) He went to political meetings, marches and protests
 * 27) It was said that it is as LBJ conjured up the Vietnam War for Mailer
 * 28) and then he was sent by God to Nixon
 * 29) He challenged McGeorge Bundy to a fistfight
 * 30) He wrote a journalistic novel called //The Armies of the Night (1969)//
 * 31) He was in the novel
 * 32) It is about a march on the Pentagon to stop the war
 * 33) He won the National Book Award that year
 * 34) With the coming of Regan, his career started to decline
 * 35) He wrote a biography about Marylin Monroe
 * 36) He still did not gain his earlier fame
 * 37) He thought that in the 60's, he would find himself as an age old prophet
 * 38) He found himself to be put down in that era.
 * 39) The war helped give a topic to Mailer
 * 40) It helped him cope with the Lacking of American life and American characters
 * 41) "It is not routine to bring off a long novel when your ambition is more than major, when you will settle for nothing less than an attempt to write a great novel, and when you are into your sixties and not all that well."
 * 42) In 1970, he went into a collison coarse with the feminist movement
 * 43) He proposed that gender might determine the way a person percivers and orders realtiy
 * 44) People say that he is not a writer for cinema
 * 45) Mailer became tired of politics in the 1980's
 * 46) "Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existence in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is." (from //Ancient Evenings//)
 * 47) He supported the 1991 Persian Gulf War
 * 48) He supported for patrioctic reasons
 * 49) He felt that the U.S. was in a bad state and needed a war
 * 50) //The Gospel According to the Son// is a re-telling of the story of Jesus
 * 51) It is a mild re-telling compared to other books like //The Last Temptations of Christ// by Nikos Kazantzákis or //The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by// Jose Saramago
 * 52) //The Time of our Time// was an anthology
 * 53) It included his fiction and non-fiction
 * 54) He was awarded The National Book Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2005
 * 55) His last novel was //The Castle In The Forest (2007)//
 * 56) It was about the young Adolf Hitler
 * 57) He died November 10, 2007
 * 58) He died of renal failure
 * 59) He was 84 years old
 * 60) He had been married 6 times
 * THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, 1948
 * THE DEER PARK, 1955
 * THE WHITE NEGRO, 1957
 * ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF, 1959
 * DEATHS FOR THE LADIES, AND OTHER DISASTERS, 1962
 * THE PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS, 1963
 * AN AMERICAN DREAM, 1965
 * CANNIBALS AND CHRISTIANS, 1966
 * THE BULLFIGHT, 1967
 * WHY ARE WE IN VIETNAM?, 1967
 * THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION, 1967
 * THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, 1968
 * THE IDOL AND THE OCTOPUS, 1968
 * MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF CHIGACO, 1968
 * RUNNING AGAINST THE MACHINE, 1969
 * OF A FIRE ON THE MOON, 1970
 * THE PRISONER OF SEX, 1971
 * KING OF THE HILL, 1971
 * THE LONG PATROL, 1971
 * ST. GEORGE AND THE GODFATHER, 1972
 * EXISTENTIAL ERRANDS, 1972
 * MARILYN, 1973
 * THE FIGHT OF GRAFFITI / WATCHING MY NAME GO BY, 1975
 * THE FLIGHT, 1975
 * GENIUS AND LUST, 1976 - (a portrait of [|Henry Miller])
 * SOME HONORABLE MEN, 1976
 * THE EXECUTUONER'S SONG, 1979
 * OF WOMEN AND THEIR ELEGANCE, 1980
 * PIECES AND PONTIFICATIONS, 1982
 * THE ESSENTIAL MAILER, 1982
 * ANCIENT EVENINGS, 1984
 * TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE, 1984
 * HUCKLEBERRY FINN, 1985
 * HARLOT'S GHOST, 1991
 * PABLO AND FERNANDE, 1994
 * OSWALD'S TALE: AN AMERICAN MYSTERY, 1995
 * PORTRAIT OF PICASSO AS A YOUNG MAN, 1995
 * THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON, 1997
 * THE TIME OF OUR TIME, 1998
 * INTO THE MIRROR by Lawrence Schiller, 2002 - based upon an investigation by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller; dramatized for television by N. Mailer
 * THE SPOOKY ART, 2003
 * WHY ARE WE AT WAR?, 2003
 * MODEST GIFTS, 2003
 * THE BIG EMPTY, 2006 (with John Buffalo Mailer)
 * THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST, 2007
 * 1) He is thought to be too narrow and onesided
 * 2) People think that he does not view or experience life to the fullest
 * 3) It is said that no other author at once has been so brilliant, vaired, controversial, public, prolific, and misunderstood.
 * 4) “I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.”
 * 5) He started to gain fame in the 1950's
 * 6) He gained fame as an anti-establishment essayist
 * 7) He said that the book //Das Kapital// helped him become a better writer
 * 8) He did not believe that Communism would solve all problems
 * 9) He wrote a note to Fidel Castro saying "you are giving us hope".
 * 10) His essay //The White Negro,// examined violence, hysteria, crimes and confusion in American society
 * 11) He did this in a well executed way
 * 12) He was listed among the New Journalists, who applied the techniques of the novel to depict real events and people
 * 13) There is a memoir called 'Making Love With Norman'
 * 14) Carole Mallory was the author
 * 15) She sold the book to Harvard
 * 16) There is a 20 page sex scene
 * 17) Mailer was awarded the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award
 * 18) Carole said that Norman was a real man, and he knew what he was doing
 * 19) The book is unpublished
 * 1) The book is unpublished