NORMAN MAILER 1923-2007

The noted American author Norman Mailer died this morning in New York. He was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, a journalist, a screenwriter, an actor... A recent interview with Mr. Mailer can be found on EW. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes--for Armies of the Night (General Non-fiction) in 1969 and for The Executioner's Song (Fiction) in 1980. A "Selected Bibliography" and links to other websites can be found on Wikipedia.

The Elk Grove Village Library has several works about and by him:
Biographies:
Mailer: A Biography (1999) by Mary V. Dearborn (BIO MAI)
The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography (1991) by Carl Rollyson (BIO MAI)
Mailer: A Biography (1982) by Hilary Mills (BIO MAILER)

Criticism:
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up, (1974) comp., Laura Adams (813.54 ADA)
Norman Mailer (2003) edited by Harold Bloom (813.54 MAI)
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution (2006) by Marc Weingarten (818.54 WEI)
Norman Mailer (1978) by Philip H. Bufithis (813.54 BUF)
Norman Mailer (1986) edited by Harold Bloom (813.54 NOR)

Non-Fiction:
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing (2003) by Norman Mailer (808.02 MAI)
Oswald's tale: An American Mystery (1995) (364.1524 MAI)
The Armies of the Night; History as a Novel, the Novel as History (1968) (959.7 MAI)
Miami and the Siege of Chicago; an Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (1968) (324.9046 MAI)
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretative Biography (1995) (BIO PIC)

Fiction:
Ancient Evenings (1983) (MAILER, N.)
The Executioner's Song (1979) (MAI)
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984) (MAI)
The Naked and the Dead (1949) (MAI)
Harlot's Ghost (1991) (MAI)
An American Dream (1965) (MAI)
The Gospel According to the Son (1997) (MAI)
The Castle in the Forest (2007) (MAILER, N)
The Long Patrol; 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer (1971) Edited by Robert F. Lucid (818.54 MAI)