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Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer · Arts & Literature

What

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist ('The Naked and the Dead', 'The Executioner's Song')

When

1923, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States — 2007, New York City, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Norman Mailer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist ('The Naked and the Dead', 'The Executioner's Song')

How & why

Mailer was an American novelist, journalist and co-founder of 'The Village Voice' who won two Pulitzer Prizes, for 'The Armies of the Night' (1969) and 'The Executioner's Song' (1980), and helped pioneer literary nonfiction. Born to a Jewish family in New Jersey, he was a central figure of postwar American letters.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature

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Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist ('The Naked and the Dead', 'The Executioner's Song')

1923

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature