Norman Mailer bibliography
This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books by and about Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), an American novelist, new journalist, essayist, public intellectual, filmmaker, and biographer. Over a fifty-nine-year period, Mailer won two Pulitzer Prizes and had eleven books spend a total of 160 weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list. Mailer's output included forty-plus books and six decades of bestsellers on a wide range of topics, from World War II to Marilyn Monroe. His biographer J. Michael Lennon calls him the chronicler of the American Century, and a talent  whose career has "been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, improvisational, public, productive, lengthy and misunderstood". Anthologies, Collections, Miscellanies. Beginning in 1959, it became a habit of Mailer's to release his periodical writing, excerpts, and the occasional new piece in collections and miscellanies every few years. Not including letters, Mailer has written for over 100 magazines and periodicals, including "Dissent", "Ladies Home Journal", "One: The Homosexual Magazine", "Playboy", "Esquire", "Vanity Fair", "Harper's", "New Yorker", and others. Conversations, Interviews. By 1986, Mailer had been interviewed approximately 200 times, perhaps more than any other American author on a wide range  of topics. He very well might maintain that distinction today. Key Texts for Mailer Studies. Listed chronologically, the following are integral books for the study of Norman Mailer. References. Notes Citations Works Cited