The Executioner's Song

Name: The Executioner's Song
Author: Norman Mailer

by Norman Mailer

Novel-length narrative about execution killer Gary Gilmore blending journalism and fictional form

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Norman Mailer

American novelist and journalist whose career embodied the grandiose ambitions and failures of the American literary imagination. The Armies of the Night won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His ego was legendary; his best work—The Executioner's Song, The Naked and the Dead—is genuinely great.

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