Writer Norman Mailer dies

Norman Mailer, one of the last surviving literary lions to roar out of World War II, died Saturday morning at the age of 84 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said J. Michael Lennon, his official biographer.

In a career of highs and lows, Mailer wrote more than 30 books, won two Pulitzer Prizes and managed to be mentioned in everything from the TV show King of the Hill to John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance.

Mailer interviewed Madonna in an iconic chat for US Esquire magazine in the August 1994 issue, with provocative images by photographer Wayne Maser.

In his interview with Madonna, Mailer said: “There is nothing comparable to living with a phenomenon when the phenomenon is you and you observe yourself with a cool intelligence, your own, and yet are trapped in the cruellest pit of the narcissist – you not only are more interested in yourself than anyone else alive, but suffer from the likely suspicion that this might be justified. You could be more interesting than anyone you’ve encountered”.

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