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...rd]], and Mailer ran for the mayor of New York City. Mailer won his second Pulitzer in 1979 for ''[[The Executioner's Song]]''. ...ational Book Award]] (Arts and Letters division) and shares the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in nonfiction for ''The Armies of Night''; campaigns unsuccessfully in Ne

''The Armies of the Night'' won both a [[w:Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]] for nonfiction and the [[w:National Book Award|National Book Award]]. The

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters. In

...The only major literary prize to elude him, at least so far, is the Nobel Prize for Literature. There is no retirement when one is a writer, as Mailer said

...elf. Bonus: Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley discuss Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1980 novel ''The Executioner's Song''. || [https://archive.org/deta ...Jack Henry Abbott during the late 70s when Mailer was writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ''The Executioner’s Song''. || [https://archive.org/details

...it won the ''Playboy'' Writing Award for fiction in 1979 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in [[1980]]. Mailer is the only writer to win Pulitzers for fic

...alents whose guide was no less than Professor Robert Hillyer, the Pulitzer Prize poet. By Senior year, I was taking English A-5, in fact I must have been on

...d speak to Fig’s writing class. They went on and on about Norman. Pulitzer prize winner. Best-selling author of more than twenty novels, including THE war n

...the historical New York Public Library in New York City. The Norman Mailer Prize has been awarded to some of the world’s most esteemed writers, including, ...ebra Sandlund, Wings Hauser and Lawrence Tierney, and directed by Pulitzer Prize winning-author Norman Mailer, based on his best-selling 1984 novel.”

...'The Armies of the Night'', a book, as you know, that won Mailer his first Pulitzer in 1969. The second was Joan Didion’s review on the front page of ''The N ...out it from the bio. Mailer’s wife Norris said that when he got the second Pulitzer for ''The Executioner’s Song'', it gave him an emotional boost. It was al

structured a Nobel Prize-winning body of work upon Yoknapatawpha ...ilson concurs with virtually every literate person (including the Pulitzer Prize Committee) that ''The Executioner’s Song'' is to be acknowledged as a mas

* '''2019-05-05''': Fifty years ago today the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Mailer for his “nonfiction novel” ''Armies of the Night'

'''It’s interesting that the two books that you got the Pulitzer Prize for, ''Armies'' and ''Executioner’s Song'', are two extremes — the

...il recently (and even still ...) he always believed would earn him a Nobel Prize, those purely Mailer novels beginning with ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' w The Brooklyn born, Harvard educated National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning larger-than-life father of eight and co-founder of the ''Village Vo

...k Award for non-fiction with ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' in 1969 and a Pulitzer in fiction for ''[[The Executioner’s Song]]'' in 1980. architecture, bullfighting, prize fighting, Kennedy and his assassination, Vietnam, the space program, protes

Fortunately, what lay ahead was good stuff — a second Pulitzer Prize and huge critical and commercial success with ''The Executioner’s Song'',

...ral Non-Fiction, the same year that Norman Mailer won the Pulitzer Fiction Prize for ''[[The Executioner’s Song]]''.}} At times, does not life seem to ''f

...n Arts and Letters, too. Eleven years later, in 1980, Mailer would win the Pulitzer again, this time for fiction, with ''The Executioner’s Song''.

...he Armies of the Night'' won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, ''An American Dream'' was suddenly declared a “contemporary classic,”

...won), and two (''Armies'' and ''The Executioner’s Song'') won the Pulitzer Prize. This is not to say, of course, that the books after 1979 were lesser works