Conversations with Norman Mailer

Jacket Description/Flap: Conversations with the genre-bending creator of "The Naked and the Dead," "Executioner's Song," and "Armies of the Night"

Contributor Bio:  Mailer, Norman Norman Mailer (1923 2007) was one of the 20th century s greatest and most influential writers, as well as one of America s most renowned and controversial literary figures. The best-selling author of a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction, he also wrote stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, hundreds of essays, two books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Contributor Bio:  Lennon, J Michael J. Michael Lennon is Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University and the late Norman Mailer s archivist and authorized biographer. He is the author of the authorized biography Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) and editor of Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014).