Norman Mailer

**Nachem Malech Mailer** (31 Januari 1923 – 10 November 2007), dikenal dengan nama penanya **Norman Kingsley Mailer**, adalah seorang penulis, jurnalis, pembuat film, dan penjahat terpidana asal Amerika. Dalam kariernya yang berlangsung lebih dari enam atau tujuh dekade, Mailer memiliki 11 buku terlaris, setidaknya satu di setiap tujuh dekade setelah Perang Dunia II.

Novelnya *[[The Naked and the Dead]]* diterbitkan pada tahun 1948 dan membuatnya terkenal sejak dini. Novel nonfiksinya yang terbit pada tahun 1968 *[[The Armies of the Night]]* memenangkan Pulitzer Prize atas nonfiksi dan juga National Book Award. Di antara karya-karyanya yang terkenal lainnya adalah *[[An American Dream (novel)|An American Dream]]* (1965), *[[The Fight (buku)|The Fight]]* (1975) dan *[[The Executioner's Song]]* (1979), yang memenangkan Pulitzer Prize atas fiksi.

Mailer dianggap sebagai inovator "nonfiksi kreatif" atau "Jurnalisme Baru", bersama dengan Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion dan Tom Wolfe, genre yang menggunakan gaya dan perangkat fiksi sastra dalam jurnalisme faktual. Dia adalah seorang komentator dan kritikus budaya terkemuka, yang mengekspresikan pandangannya yang seringkali kontroversial melalui novel, jurnalisme, dan sering tampil di media, dan esai-esai, yang paling terkenal dan dicetak ulang adalah "The White Negro". Pada tahun 1955, ia dan tiga orang lainnya mendirikan *[[The Village Voice]]*, sebuah surat kabar mingguan berorientasi seni dan politik yang didistribusikan di Greenwich Village.

Pada tahun 1960, Mailer dihukum karena penyerangan dan menjalani masa percobaan tiga tahun setelah ia menusuk istrinya Adele Morales dengan pisau lipat, yang hampir menewaskannya. Dalam 1969, ia menjalankan kampanye yang berujung kegagalan untuk menjadi walikota New York, dan menempati posisi keempat dalam pemilihan pendahuluan Demokrat. Mailer menikah enam kali dan memiliki sembilan anak.

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* Daftar aktivis perdamaian

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## Bacaan tambahan

* Lennon, J. Michael. *Norman Mailer: A Double Life* (Simon & Schuster; 2013) 947 pages; scholarly biography
* *Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest,* edited by John Whalen-Bridge. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
* Essays on Late Mailer in *The Journal of Modern Literature,* edited by Robert L. Caserio (30.1) Fall 2006
* Glenday, Michael K. *Norman Mailer* New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
* *Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer* by Nigel Leigh. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
* *Norman Mailer: Works and Days* by J. Michael and Donna P. Lennon. Westport, MA: Sligo Press, 2000. Comprehensive, annotated primary and secondary bibliography with life chronology.
* *Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work,* edited by Robert F. Lucid. Boston: Little, Brown. The first collection of essays on Mailer.
* *Norman Mailer* by Philip Bufithis. New York: Ungar, 1978. Perhaps the most readable and reliable study of Mailer's early work.
* *Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer* by Robert J. Begiebing. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980. Fine discussion of Mailer's "heroic consciousness."
* *The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer* by Barry H. Leeds. Bainbridge, WA: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2002.
* *Political Fiction and the American Self* by John Whalen-Bridge. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Subtle examination of Mailer's dual aptitude of representing and resisting American mythologies.
* *Critical Essays on Norman Mailer,* edited by J.Michael Lennon: Boston, G.K.Hall and Co., 1986.
* *Norman Mailer,* by Richard Poirier. New York: Viking,1972. One of the best studies of Mailer's writing, tracking his career through the early Eighties.
* *Norman Mailer* by Richard Jackson Foster. University of Minnesota Press, 1968. Pamphlet.
* *The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer* by Barry H. Leeds, New York University Press,1969.
* *Norman Mailer Revisited* by Robert Merrill. Twayne, 1992. Contains perhaps the best analysis of *The Executioner's Song*
* *Mailer: His Life and Times,* edited by Peter Manso. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. Highly readable, but controversial "oral" biography of Mailer created by cross-cutting interviews with friends, enemies, acquaintances, relatives, wives of Mailer and Mailer himself.
* *Conversations with Norman Mailer,* edited by J. Michael Lennon. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.
* *Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays* edited by Leo Braudy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Contains useful insights on *Miami and the Siege of Chicago.*
* *Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer* by Laura Adams. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 1976. Good discussion of early narrators.
* *Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis* by John W. Aldridge. New York: David McKay, 1966. Contains Aldridge's important essay on *An American Dream.*
* *The Portable Beat Reader,* edited by Ann Charters, Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk). Contains "The White Negro."
* *The Norman Mailer Review,* edited by Phillip Sipiora. New periodical co-sponsored by the University of South Florida and the Norman Mailer Society.
* The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture: Francis Irby Gwaltney http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3034
* Van A. Tyson http://www.atkinschronicle.com/vantyson.htm 

## Pranala luar

* The Norman Mailer Center 
* The Norman Mailer Society 
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* FBI Records: The Vault - Norman Mailer at vault.fbi.gov
* Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2000 broadcast on *[[The Book Show]]*, ABC Radio National, November 12, 2007
* [ "Superman Comes to the Supermarket,"] article by Norman Mailer on John F. Kennedy, Esquire magazine, November 1960
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* Sunday New York Times review by Lee Siegel of ''The Castle in the Forest''
* Norman Mailer on American Masters (PBS Broadcast)
* Norman Mailer: The American (Documentary)
* Norman Mailer's writing on The Huffington Post
* A conversation with Norman Mailer (Minnesota Public Radio)
* Norman Mailer and Günter Grass interviewed by Andrew O'Hagan at The New York Public Library, June 2007
* Norman Mailer speech at UC Berkeley Vietnam Teach-In, 1965 (RealAudio) (via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center)
* Joyce Carol Oates on Norman Mailer
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** ''Booknotes'' interview with Mailer on ''Oswald's Tale'', June 25, 1995. 
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