Norman Mailer and New Journalism

A leading novelist and journalist of modern America who overnight became the darling of his era with his debut work The Naked and the Dead, based on his World War II experiences. As a standard-bearer of "New Journalism," which blends fiction and fact, he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Armies of the Night, which depicted the anti-Vietnam War movement. An activist literatus who continually rebelled against established morals in his private life, persistently pursued American social taboos such as politics, sex, and violence, and relentlessly exposed the hypocrisy of the state during the Cold War.

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