Norman Mailer
Born
in Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States
January 31, 1923
Died
November 10, 2007
Website
Genre
Influences
The Naked and the Dead
248 editions
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1948
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The Executioner's Song
75 editions
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1979
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The Fight
70 editions
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1975
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An American Dream
122 editions
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1965
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
78 editions
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1968
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
95 editions
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published
1984
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The Castle in the Forest
74 editions
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published
2007
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Harlot's Ghost
61 editions
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published
1991
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Ancient Evenings
62 editions
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published
1983
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Marilyn
87 editions
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published
1973
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“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
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“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
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Polls
2015 Fourth Quarter Long Read
1978, The Stand by Stephen King, 1153 pages
1853, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages
1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages
1879, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages
1868, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages
1924, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 706 pages
1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages
1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages
1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1973, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages
1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages
1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
1901, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages
1948, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, 721 pages
1876, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 796 pages
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