20071110 AP: Newsday - Writer Norman Mailer has died at age 84

AP: Newsday - Writer Norman Mailer has died at age 84

Nov 10, 2007

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(AP/Kathy Willens)

Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song," died of acute renal failure on Nov. 10. He was 84.

Mailer built and nurtured an image over the years as bellicose, street-wise and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife, almost fatally, during a drunken party.

He had nine children, made a quixotic bid to become mayor of New York City on a "left conservative" platform, produced five forgettable films, dabbled in journalism, flew gliders, challenged professional boxers, was banned from a Manhattan YWHA for reciting obscene poetry, feuded publicly with writer Gore Vidal and crusaded against women's liberation. (AP/Kathy Willens)

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Also see: CNN: Literary lion Norman Mailer dies By Todd Leopold CNN updated 9:24 p.m. EST, Sat November 10, 2007

Story Highlights:

Renowned author died of renal failure early Saturday

Influential novelist, essayist Mailer died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 84

Burst on scene with "The Naked and the Dead"

Wrote "The Armies of the Night," two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

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19480000 to November 10 2007 Works by Norman Mailer

"The Naked and the Dead" 1948
"The Barbary Shore" 1951
"The Deer Park" 1955
"Advertisements for Myself" 1959
"The Presidential Papers" 1963
"An American Dream" 1965
"Why Are We in Vietnam?" 1967
"The Armies of the Night" (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize) 1968
"Miami and the Siege of Chicago" 1968
"Of A Fire On the Moon" 1971
"The Prisoner of Sex," essay, 1971
"Existential Errands" 1972
"St. George and the Godfather," 1972
"Marilyn" 1973
"The Fight" 1975
"Some Honorable Men" 1975
"Genius and Lust" 1976
"A Transit to Narcissus" 1978
"The Executioner's Song" (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) 1979
"Of Women and Their Elegance, Pieces and Pontifications,"
essay, 1982
"Ancient Evenings" 1983
"Tough Guys Don't Dance" 1984
"Harlot's Ghost" 1991
"The Gospel According to the Son" 1997