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Norman Kingsley Mailer
(January 31, 1923 ? November 10, 2007) was an
American
writer
and
journalist
. He was born in
Long Branch, New Jersey
and raised in
Brooklyn
,
New York City
.
Along with
Truman Capote
,
Joan Didion
, and
Tom Wolfe
, Mailer writes
creative nonfiction
, sometimes called
New Journalism
, but which covers the
essay
to the
nonfiction novel
. He was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize
twice and the
National Book Award
once on his journalism career. In 1955, Mailer, along with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published
The Village Voice
, which was shown to the
Greenwich Village
. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The
National Book Foundation
.
Mailer died of
renal failure
in New York City.
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