KnowraNorman MailerLinked fromLinked fromThe 11 pages that link to Norman Mailer, each with the reason it gives.All 11Related 4Compared with 7New JournalismRelated: His reporting brought novelistic ambition and a conspicuous authorial self into nonfiction.James BaldwinCompared with: Their 1961 debate exposed opposing accounts of race, white identity, and American power.Kate MillettCompared with: Millett’s 1970 critique of his writing made him a central target of Sexual Politics.Joan DidionCompared with: His conspicuous authorial presence contrasts with Didion’s controlled, often withholding voice.Tom WolfeRelated: Mailer was a fellow practitioner of literary nonfiction and a prominent participant in its debates.The Village VoiceRelated: Mailer helped launch the newspaper in 1955 with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf.Mary McCarthyCompared with: Mailer’s theatrical public persona contrasts with McCarthy’s emphasis on analytic precision.Gore VidalCompared with: Their combative public exchanges made Vidal and Mailer conspicuous rivals in literary culture.Herman WoukCompared with: Mailer’s combat fiction offers a more experimental, psychologically intense counterpoint to Wouk’s narrative realism.Joseph HellerCompared with: Mailer’s more documentary and psychologically ambitious war writing contrasts with Heller’s farce.William StyronRelated: Mailer was a friend and fellow public intellectual whose writing also joined fiction with political controversy.