Norman Mailer: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist and Journalist Dies at 84

Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist and polemicist. Born on January 31, 1923, in Long Branch, New Jersey, he served in the Pacific in World War II.

His debut novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) made him famous. He won Pulitzer Prizes for The Armies of the Night (1968) and The Executioner's Song (1979). He helped found The Village Voice and ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York in 1969.

Mailer was married six times and had nine children. He died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on November 10, 2007, at age 84.

Achievements: Two Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Award.

Birth: January 31, 1923 - Long Branch, New Jersey.

Profession: Novelist and journalist.

Interesting Facts: He finished his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, in 2007.