num_pages: 460
description: Pulitzer Prize winner, movie director, boxer, politician, novelist, wife-stabber. Who is Norman Mailer? In this first literary biography of Norman Mailer, Rollyson draws on new interviews and unpublished and manuscripts to reveal the shifting personas this most controversial writer. This book gets at the heart of Mailer's obsession with violence and sheds new light on the novelist's involvement with Jack Abbott, the prison writer who fatally stabbed an aspiring young actor. Showing how Mailer obsessively invented himself, this biography portrays a major literary figure in the making -- from his precocious debut with The Naked and the Dead to his most recent novel, Harlot's Ghost .
language: English
title: The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography
titlecomplete: The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Iuniverse Inc