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The pugilist who wrote the story of America He fought in the second world war, stabbed one of his six wives in the neck and wrote some of the most acclaimed literature and journalism of the 20th century. As tributes flow for the man who led a new generation of writers, we chart an extraordinary and full-blooded life News: Norman Mailer dies at 84
Norman Mailer Obituary: Giant of American literature - novelist, journalist, film director and two-time Pulitzer prize-winner - dies, aged 84
Posted November 12, 2007 | 04:22 PM (EST)
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He fought in the second world war, stabbed one of his six wives in the neck and wrote some of the most acclaimed literature and journalism of the 20th century. As tributes flow for the man who led a new generation of writers, we chart an extraordinary and full-blooded life
News: Norman Mailer dies at 84
Obituary: Giant of American literature - novelist, journalist, film director and two-time Pulitzer prize-winner - dies, aged 84
Joan Smith characterises the late Norman Mailer as an arch-conservative who pulled off a stunning confidence trick
Farewell to a literary great, with chutzpah
Christopher Hitchens