Norman Mailer

American author, innovator of the nonfiction novel. Mailer developed in the 1960s and 1970s a form of journalism, that combines actual events, autobiography, and political commentary with the richness of the novel. Mailer's works have aroused controversy - because of both their stylish nonconformity and his controversial views of American life. The poet Robert Lowell praised him as "the best journalist in America" but what he thought of Mailer's fiction was left open. [Read more]

The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
Dell Books, 1967 (PhP 60.00)
Love and war, death and regeneration--the great themes of life explored in stories that spark with excitement, amaze and delight with their brilliance, selected and with a preface by the author. The 19-story selection includes "Truth and Being, Nothing and Time," "A Calculus at Heaven," "The Language of Men," and "The Shortest Novel of Them All."