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Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was an American writer, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter. He is recognized as a pioneer of creative nonfiction, often referred to as New Journalism. A two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and a National Book Award winner, Mailer published his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, in 1948. Below is a chronological list of Norman Mailer’s works as they were originally released:

Norman Mailer became a published novelist in 1948 with the novel The Naked and the Dead. Below is a list of Norman Mailer's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Naked and the Dead (1948) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Barbary Shore (1952) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Deer Park (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Presidential Papers (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Cannibals and Christians (1966) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
An American Dream (1966) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Bull Fight: A Photographic Narrative (1967) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Are We in Vietnam? (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Maidstone (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
St. George and the Godfather (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Watching My Name Go By (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
After the White Negro (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ancient Evenings (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Harlot's Ghost (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Gospel According to the Son (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Castle in the Forest (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Advertisements for Myself (1959) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Deaths for the Ladies (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Existential Errands (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pieces (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Essential Mailer (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pontifications (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pieces and Pontifications (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Time Of Our Time (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Modest Gifts (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The White Negro (1959) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Are We at War? (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Armies of the Night (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Fire on the Moon (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Prisoner of Sex (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Marilyn (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Faith of Graffiti (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Fight (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Genius & Lust (1976) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (1976) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Transit To Narcissus: A Facsimile of the Original Typescript (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Executioner's Song (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Of Women and Their Elegance (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Huckleberry Finn: Alive at 100 (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Language of Men (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How the Wimp Won the War (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Oswald's Tale (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Muhammad Ali: Ringside (With: Joyce Carol Oates,Alex Haley) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Into the Mirror: The Life of Robert P. Hanssen (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Spooky Art (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Big Empty (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
On God: An Uncommon Conversation (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Mind of an Outlaw (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Vidal vs. Mailer (With: Gore Vidal) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ten Thousand Words a Minute (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Nation Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Los Gusanos (By: John Sayles) (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Best of The Nation (By: Victor Navasky,vanden Heuvel, Katrina) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Betrayal of America (By: Vincent Bugliosi) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dreaming War (By: Gore Vidal) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Unsustainable (By: Eamonn Fingleton) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Red and the Blacklist (By: Norma Barzman) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Napoleon's Glance (By: William Duggan) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Shaking the Foundations (By: Pete Hamill,Bruce Shapiro) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Prayer for America (By: Dennis Kucinich) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Taking Back America (By: Katrina Vanden Heuvel,Robert L. Borosage) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Hole in the World (By: Jonathan Schell) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Truth About Camp David (By: Clayton E. Swisher) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita (With: Mickey Knox) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Murdered by Capitalism (By: John Ross) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Imperial America (By: Gore Vidal) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Killed (By: David Wallis) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Love, Poverty, and War (By: Christopher Hitchens) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The High Times Reader (By: Ann Nocenti,Paul Krassner,Ruth Baldwin) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Deserter from Death (By: Howard Zinn,Daniel Singer) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Blood, Class and Empire (By: Christopher Hitchens) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Genocide of the Mind (By: Vine Deloria Jr.) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
This Was Your War (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
We Accuse (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Cosmos Reader (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Unknown California (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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