Norman Mailer
November 10
The self-proclaimed heavyweight champion of postwar American letters, Mailer's six decades in the public eye helped make him one of America's most acclaimed, controversial, and outrageous authors. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, his death brought an outpouring of remembrances from literary titans like Joan Didion to world leaders like President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to politicians like former New York mayor Ed Koch.
Archive 11/11/07 Self-titled king of the literary hill dies at 84
November 10
The self-proclaimed heavyweight champion of postwar American letters, Mailer's six decades in the public eye helped make him one of America's most acclaimed, controversial, and outrageous authors. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, his death brought an outpouring of remembrances from literary titans like Joan Didion to world leaders like President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to politicians like former New York mayor Ed Koch.
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