Norman Mailer

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1948
  • Latest Book:
    February 2007
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Naked and the Dead

    Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth ann...

  • Of a Fire on the Moon

  • Barbary Shore

    Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and muc...

  • Prisoner of Sex

  • The Deer Park

    Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this ...

  • Why Are We in Vietnam?

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    “It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.” -- Chicago TribuneFeaturing a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinleyPublished nearly twent...

  • The Executioner's Song

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    Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize

    In what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows
    the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's
    prisons who became notori...

  • Of Women and Their Elegance

  • Short Fiction of Norman Mailer



  • Ancient Evenings

    Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods...

  • An American Dream

    In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song. As S...

  • Tough Guys Don't Dance

    “Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.” -- PeopleNorman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant c...

  • Harlot's Ghost

    With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society -- and his own past -- takes him thr...

  • The Armies of the Night

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

    Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America’s two highest literary awards, The Armie...

  • Oswald's Tale

    In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains -- and enigmas -- in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald -- his family background, troubled marriage, controversia...

  • The Gospel According to the Son

    Norman Mailer fused fact and fiction to create indelible portraits of such figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, and Lee Harvey Oswald. In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of West...

  • The Fight

    In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali ...

  • The Time of Our Time

    Norman Mailer's The Time of Our Time is a giant retrospective, a rich, boisterous portrait of our times seen through the fiction and reportage of one of America's greatest writers.

    Mailer selected and edited the contents of this work to create...

  • The Castle in the Forest

    The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Ad...



Award-Winning Books by Norman Mailer

The Executioner's Song
1979 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Norman Mailer has published 19 books.

Norman Mailer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Castle in the Forest, was published in February 2007.

The first book by Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, was published in June 1948.

No. Norman Mailer does not write books in series.
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