Norman Mailer
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- | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''Norman Kingsley Mailer''' (born [[January 31]], [[1923]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[novelist]], [[journalist]], [[playwright]], [[screenwriter]] and [[film director]]. Along with [[Truman Capote]], [[Joan Didion]] and [[Tom Wolfe]], Mailer is considered an innovator of [[creative nonfiction]], a genre sometimes called [[New Journalism]], but which covers the [[essay]] to the [[nonfiction novel]]. He has been awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]] twice and the [[National Book Award]] once. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The [[National Book Foundation]]. |
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