Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer is the name on the books of Nachem Malech Mailer, an American writer, journalist and filmmaker who also used the pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer. He is best known for The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948, and for The Executioner's Song, a true-crime novel about Gary Gilmore that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night also won a Pulitzer and the National Book Award, and in 1955 he helped found The Village Voice. He died in 2007.