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Norman Mailer Net Worth
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Norman Mailer net worth is $1.9 Million
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate. His first novel was The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948. His best work was widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, which was published in 1979, and for which he won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award.Along with the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, which superimposes the style and devices of literary fiction onto fact-based journalism.Mailer was also known for his essays, the most renowned of which was "The White Negro". He was a major cultural commentator and critic, both through his novels, his journalism, his essays and his frequent media appearances.In 1955, Mailer and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village.
Full Name
Norman Mailer
Net Worth
$1.9 Million
Date Of Birth
1923-01-31
Died
November 10, 2007, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, New York, United States
Actor, Author, Poet, Journalist, Politician, Film director, Novelist, Film producer, Columnist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Film Editor, Essayist, Political activist
Education
Harvard University, University of Paris
Nationality
American
Spouse
Norris Church Mailer, Carol Stevens, Beverly Bentley, Jeanne Campbell, Adele Morales, Beatrice Silverman
Children
Stephen Mailer, John Buffalo Mailer, Michael Mailer, Kate Mailer, Danielle Mailer, Elizabeth Mailer, Matthew Mailer, Susan Mailer, Maggie Mailer
Parents
Fanny Schneider Mailer, Isaac Barnett Mailer
Siblings
Barbara Mailer, Norma Mailer
Nicknames
Mailer, Norman, Norman Mailer
IMDB
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Bad Sex in Fiction Award, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Helmerich Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Award for Arts and Letters (Nonfiction)
Nominations
National Book Award for Fiction, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Hammett Prize, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special, National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction), National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover), Nationa...
Movies
Maidstone, Wild 90, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer: The American, King Lear, Cremaster 2, When We Were Kings, Ragtime, Town Bloody Hall, American Tragedy, Inside Deep Throat, Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song, Oswald's Ghost, New York in the Fift...
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Quote
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[on Ryan O'Neal] I didn't get that mad when he called me a jerk, because there was a certain truth to it.
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[responding to a request for a literary contribution] Dear Pearl Kazin: I'm still too young and too arrogant to care to write the kind of high-grade horseshit that you print in 'Harper's Bazaar'.
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Every writer has something to be ashamed of.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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I've always felt my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry by it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it.
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[on his stabbing of his second-wife Adele Morales with a 3-in. pocket-knife] What have I held on to for a long, long time and never written about, and indeed...may never write about? And it seems to me that stabbing my wife, Adele, is probably what I will never write about.
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You know, a criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
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"I sometimes think that if porny films had come along when I was a young man, it would have dispensed with a lot of friction in my personal life." (in a conversation with his son, John Buffalo Mailer in Playboy's Dec. 2004 issue).
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Great writers are not easy to read, and shouldn't be.
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Making a film is a cross between a circus, a military campaign, a nightmare, and orgy and a high.
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Movie making is like sex. You start doing it, and then you get interested in getting better at it.
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Fact
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He is nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the General Category.
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Mentioned in the song "Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?" by Lloyd Cole & The Commotions.
Nearly 11 years after the death of Marilyn Monroe, Mailer appeared on the cover of "Time Magazine" with the cinema legend. The July 17 1973 edition of "Time Magazine" featured a composite of photos of Mailer and Monroe. Monroe's picture was a full-color portrait taken by Bert Stern, from the last photographic sitting before her death, and dominated the cover. Her image dwarfs a smaller black & white photo of Mailer. The cover-story heralds the publication of "Marilyn," the book documenting her life in pictures, featuring a 90,000 word biography by Mailer. Mailer reportedly was displeased that "Time" chose to play up Monroe and diminish him, visually, on the cover. The publication of the coffee table book was a major event of that publishing season. The book retailed for $19.95, which is approximately $100 in 2008 money, when factored for inflation.
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Earned an Engineering Science degree in 1943 from Harvard University.
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His breakthrough novel "The Naked and The Dead" (1948) is based on his personal experiences during World War II and is considered one of the "100 best novels in English language" by the Modern Library.
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Ran in the Democratic Party primary to Mayor of New York City, but finally wasn't chosen candidate (1969).
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Stated that he would never win a Nobel Prize because he once had stabbed his then wife Adele Morales with a penknife at a party (1960).
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Lived in New York City and Provincetown, MA with his sixth wife Norris.
Studied aeronautical engineering at Harvard University, graduating in 1943.
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Coined the term "factoid", defined as a wholly spurious "fact" invented to create or prolong public exposure or to manipulate public opinion, in his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Mailer himself described a factoid as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper".
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Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 40th Cannes International Film Festival in 1987.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 273-282. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
