TY - BOOK AU - Manso,Peter TI - Mailer, his life and times SN - 0671442643 AV - B PS 3525 M219M 1985 U1 - 813/.54 PY - 1985/// CY - New York PB - Simon and Schuster KW - Mailer, Norman, KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Autores estadounidenses KW - Biografías KW - Siglo XX KW - Journalists KW - United States KW - Periodistas KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Includes index; Brooklyn (1923-39) Harvard (1939-43) The army, Paris, The Naked and the Dead (1944-48) Hollywood, politics, and Barbary Shore (1948-51) Greenwich Village and the Deer Park (1951-55) The Village Voice (1955-56) This hip and the square, Advertisements for Myself, and "The Trouble" (1956-60) Deaths for the Ladies, Presidential Papers, and An American Dream (1961-65) The age of aquarius (1965-69) The Prisoner of Sex and Marilyn (1970-75) The Executioners' Song (1975-79) Ancient Evenings and Onward (1980-84) Contributors Mailer family tree N2 - The winner of every major national literary award, the preeminent novelist of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a movie director, politician, pugilist, antiwar activist, hipster, philosopher, and enfant terrible, Norman Mailer has been maligned, loved, hated, belittled, idolized, but never ignored. This sweeping biography captures the legend's extraordinary life and career in his own fascinating words and in vivid accounts by his famous peers, friends, enemies, wives, lovers, and family members. Mailer is an extraordinary tapestry, a portrait of an era as well as a man, as protean as the subject himself and just as overflowing with life ER -