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Norman Mailer

1923 - 2007

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Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six or seven decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as the National Book Award. Among his other well-known works are An American Dream (1965), The Fight (1975) and The Executioner's Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2024). Norman Mailer is the 1,354th most popular writer (down from 1,120th in 2024), the 1,972nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,311th in 2019) and the 158th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Norman Mailer ranks 1,354 out of 7,302. Before him are Ken Robinson, Yan Fu, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Paul Scarron, Fredric Brown, and David C. H. Austin. After him are Harry Harrison, Jakob Wassermann, Ethel Voynich, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Cassius Longinus, and Garcilaso de la Vega.

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Among people born in 1923, Norman Mailer ranks 73. Before him are Rasul Gamzatov, Koji Miyata, Cliff Robertson, Zlatko Čajkovski, Chaleo Yoovidhya, and Walter M. Miller Jr.. After him are Edgar F. Codd, Chuck Yeager, Hwang Jang-yop, Frederick Herzberg, Valentina Cortese, and Conrad Bain. Among people deceased in 2007, Norman Mailer ranks 60. Before him are David Lane, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michael Jackson, Ian Smith, Taha Yassin Ramadan, and Ike Turner. After him are Robert Adler, Jupp Derwall, Jaan Kross, Michel Serrault, Anna Nicole Smith, and Joe Zawinul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Norman Mailer ranks 1,972 out of 20,380. Before him are Arthur Samuel (1901), John Armstrong Jr. (1758), Griffin Dunne (1955), Fredric Brown (1906), Georgina Spelvin (1936), and Robert Ryan (1909). After him are Harry Harrison (1925), Temple Grandin (1947), Matt Bomer (1977), Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), and Eugene Fama (1939).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Norman Mailer ranks 158. Before him are Samuel R. Delany (1942), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Nora Roberts (1950), Martha Gellhorn (1908), and Fredric Brown (1906). After him are Harry Harrison (1925), James Patterson (1947), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Clive Cussler (1931), James Baldwin (1924), and William Styron (1925).

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