Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was the author of more than three dozen works across a range of genres, including
The Armies of the Night (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award, and
The Executioner's Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
J. Michael Lennon, emeritus professor of English at Wilkes University, is Norman Mailer's archivist, editor, and authorized biographer, and founding president of the Norman Mailer Society. His books include
Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) and
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014). He lives in Westport, Massachusetts.