November 23, 2007

The Polarizing Legacy of Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer, the irascible giant of American letters, died this month at the age of 84. Mailer burst upon the literary scene in 1948 with his widely acclaimed World War II novel The Naked and the Dead and soon established himself as one of the most consistent (and to some, consistently infuriating) chroniclers of American life. He was nothing if not versatile, experimenting with both fiction and nonfiction, first-person journalism and historical biography, the sum of which spread out across

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