Norman Mailer, or America between stars and disasters. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1923, he was the man of all excesses.
His pen was torrential, corrosive, muscular. At the age of 23, the former GI had written The Naked and the Dead which would remain for the Second World War what Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms was for the First. The man was married six times and father of nine children. He occupied the forefront of the media and literary scene for six decades.