The Armies of the Night

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the great post-War American writers, both as a novelist and as one of the key inventors of the New Journalism. His books include the novels The Naked and the Dead , The Deer Park , Why Are We in Vietnam? , The Executioner's Song and Harlot's Ghost and the non-fiction works The Armies of the Night , A Fire on the Moon (published in the USA as Of a Fire on the Moon ) and The Fight . He won the National Book Award and twice won the Pulitzer Prize.