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'''Norman Kingsley Mailer''' (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, political activist, and public intellectual. Mailer came to prominence with the publication of his 1948 novel ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]''. His career spans the latter half of the twentieth-century, and his outspoken opinions and ideas were heard on almost every major television talk show and in every major magazine worldwide. He published over forty books in his lifetime, and even helped to pioneer [[w:New Journalism|New Journalism]] in the sixties: a new way to perceive the unique events of the era, weaving conventional reporting with fictional techniques. While he published in almost every literary genre, he was also a well-known public intellectual and a would-be politician who held controversial opinions about women, sex, violence, power, technology, and writing. Mailer tried his hand at journalism, film-making, biography, playwriting, sports reporting, and he participated in hundreds of rallies, interviews, protests, and debates that helped shape American culture of the twentieth century.

| style="vertical-align: top;" | Wins ''[[Story (magazine)|Story]]'' magazine's annual college contest with "The Greatest Thing in the World"; on ''Harvard Advocate'', the undergraduate literary magazine; writing stories influenced by Hemingway; writes his first novel (''No Percentage'', about Jewish life in Brooklyn) during the summer (unpublished — "It was just terrible"{{sfn|Marcus|1988|p=79}}).