RIP Norman Mailer

Writer, poet, journalist, boxer, chauvinist,  and beat generation lynch pin, Norman Mailer, died yesterday of renal failure.

Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He was 84. (more from the NY Times)

Posted on timeNovember 10th, 2007 by userSimon Greenhill



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