Fifty years ago today the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Mailer for his “nonfiction novel” Armies of the Night, an account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
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A 50th-anniversary Taschen edition of Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon recalls the epic journey of Apollo 11.
MGA Graduate Students Publish Digital Humanities Project About Norman Mailer.
An Irish Times review lauds Mailer’s 1975 account of the Ali–Foreman fight as prose that carries the drama of the ring with novelistic force.
Joe Flaherty captures the chaos, charisma, and contradictions of Mailer’s infamous run for New York City mayor.
Emily Temple of LitHub finds that Mailer’s writing career spanned 59 years, just shy of Borges’ 62.
The Washington Post reports that Diana Athill, one-time Mailer editor, has died at 101.