Norman Mailer

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1923 age 0

   Born

2. 2007 age 84

   Died

• MHMark Harelik1 title
• RLRiki Lindhome1 title
• DMDakin Matthews1 title
• KWKarl T. Wright1 title
• DDDale Dickey1 title
• MJMatt Jones1 title
• AHAaron Hill1 title
• KRKrysten Ritter1 title
• CECynthia Ettinger1 title
• SCSmith Cho1 title

• Influenced by

  • LTLeo Tolstoy
  • PPPablo Picasso
  • WFWilliam Faulkner
  • HMHenry Miller
  • TMThomas Mann
  • EHErnest Hemingway
  • HJHenry James

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Carl Van VechtenPublic domain
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• Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

  Norman Mailer, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

  Norman Mailer, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today … We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

  Norman Mailer, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

  Norman Mailer, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You're contending with a genius, D.J. is his name, only American alive who could outtalk Cassius Clay, that's lip.

  Norman Mailer, CC BY-SA 4.0

• This is D.J., Disc Jockey to America turning off. Vietnam, hot dam.

  Norman Mailer, CC BY-SA 4.0