Norman Mailer: dead at 84
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Norman Mailer, author of the Naked and the Dead, has died at the age of 84.
“In his best work Mr. Mailer made America his subject, and in tackling everything from politics to boxing to Hollywood, from astronauts to actresses to art, he depicted – or tried to depict – the country’s contradictions: its moralistic prudery and grasping fascination with celebrity and sex and power; the outsize, outlaw past of its frontier and its current descent into ‘corporation land,’ filled with cheap, consumer blandishments and the siren call of fame,” says the New York Times.
Mailer had been in poor health since a hospitalization for asthma in September and surgery for a collapsed lung in October, says the Los Angeles Times, adding:
“The last in his line of post-World War II American writers, Mailer sought not only to write great novels but to forge ‘a revolution in the consciousness of our time.’
“As a novelist, he was most praised for his debut effort, ‘The Naked and the Dead’ (1948). As a writer of a brand of nonfiction that bore the form and soul of a novel, he gathered his greatest laurels – two Pulitzers over the course of a decade for ‘The Armies of the Night’ (1969) and ‘The Executioner’s Song’ (1979).”
Also See:
New York Times – Mailer Made America His Subject, November 10, 2007
Los Angeles Times – Author Norman Mailer dead at 84, November 10, 2007
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