Norman Mailer was a major 20th Century author, journalist, and filmmaker who published novels, biographies, and other nonfiction, and won several prizes, including multiple Pulitzers. He courted controversy, with violent views on masculinity, his own violent behavior, and an unsuccessful run for mayor of New York on a platform of making the city the 51st state. His best known novel is The Naked and the Dead, published in 1948, about his experiences in WWII in the Philippines. You can find his novels and critical writing about him in O’Neill Library at call number PS3525.A4152 on level 4.