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Mailer discovered in the 1960s that he needed a new way to see the fantastic and unpredictable events of the decade and the optics of conventional journalism were too clumsy. He decided, therefore, to interleave reportorial perseverance, fictional technique and the urgent promptings of his own intuition into a new narrative mode that would capture the momentous happenings of the era, while seeking, as he said of Picasso, "to reach into mysteries of existence that no one else had perceived". For many readers, Mailer's acumen and observation of an event is crucial to its understanding. In 2006, he was recognized for his many contributions to literature and culture with a Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the National Book Award Foundation. For the last 33 years of his life, he lived in Brooklyn Heights and Provincetown, Massachusetts with his sixth wife, the painter and novelist, [[Norris Church Mailer]]. He was married six times and was the father of nine children and ten grandchildren. | Mailer discovered in the 1960s that he needed a new way to see the fantastic and unpredictable events of the decade and the optics of conventional journalism were too clumsy. He decided, therefore, to interleave reportorial perseverance, fictional technique and the urgent promptings of his own intuition into a new narrative mode that would capture the momentous happenings of the era, while seeking, as he said of Picasso, "to reach into mysteries of existence that no one else had perceived". For many readers, Mailer's acumen and observation of an event is crucial to its understanding. In 2006, he was recognized for his many contributions to literature and culture with a Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the National Book Award Foundation. For the last 33 years of his life, he lived in Brooklyn Heights and Provincetown, Massachusetts with his sixth wife, the painter and novelist, [[Norris Church Mailer]]. He was married six times and was the father of nine children and ten grandchildren. | ||
== Read More == | |||
* [[Norman Mailer by the Decade: An Epistolary Slant]] by [[J. Michael Lennon]] | |||
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