News just coming in of the death of one of the greatest modern writers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer Sad sad news the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur, died of renal failure early Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84. Mailer died at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. Michael Lennon, who is also the author's official biographer. From his classic debut novel, "The Naked and the Dead," to such masterworks of literary journalism as "The Armies of the Night," the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner always got credit for insight, passion and originality. Some of Mailer's works were highly praised, some panned, but none was pronounced the Great American Novel that seemed to be his life quest from the time he soared to the top as a brash 25-year-old "enfant terrible." Mailer built and nurtured an image over the years as pugnacious, streetwise and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife, almost fatally, during a drunken party. A modern day legend phenominal writer Comments :-
Novels, journals and essays by Norman Mailer: "The Naked and the Dead" 1948 "The Barbary Shore" 1951 "The Deer Park" 1955 "The White Negro," essay, 1957 "Advertisements for Myself" 1959 "The Presidential Papers" 1963 "An American Dream" 1965 "Cannibals and Christians," essay, 1966 "Why Are We in Vietnam?" 1967 "The Armies of the Night" (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize) 1968 "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" 1968 "Of A Fire On the Moon" 1971 "The Prisoner of Sex," essay, 1971 "Existential Errands" 1972 "St. George and the Godfather" 1972 "Marilyn" 1973 "The Faith of Graffiti," essay, 1974 "The Fight" 1975 "Some Honorable Men" 1975 "Genius and Lust" 1976 "A Transit to Narcissus" 1978 "The Executioner's Song" (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) 1979 "Of Women and Their Elegance, Pieces and Pontifications," essay, 1982 "Ancient Evenings" 1983 "Tough Guys Don't Dance" 1984 "Harlot's Ghost" 1991 "The Gospel According to the Son" 1997 ___ Poetry: "Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters" 1962 ___ Films directed: "Wild 90" 1967 "Beyond the Law" 1967 "Maidstone" 1968 "Tough Guys Don't Dance" 1987