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The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life.

When Adam Sisman approached David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré (pictured), as his possible biographer in 2010, Le Carré cited my messy private life as a reason for being nervous.

If you are lucky in your life, you come to know one or two people who made you who you are other than your parents who gave you the extraordinary gift of life. Edwin Fancher, who it is my sad duty to inform you died last Wednesday in his apartment on Gramercy Park at the age of 100, is one such pers...

A psychologist, he started the alternative weekly with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer in 1955. “We were crazy enough to think it would succeed,” he said.

No matter how many books they’ve published or awards they’ve won, all authors have their own little habits, quirks, and bizarre beliefs. Some lead double

The decline in his fiction over his lifetime was understandable. The mystery is why his worst journalism ever received such lavish praise.

Norman Mailer’s modus operandi was to seek out the most morally troubling corners of human experience—and rush headlong into them for material.

Writer Norman Mailer’s busy lifestyle shaped his family’s life. In her memoir, the eldest of his nine children discusses her relationship with the great New York author

A new collection drains much of the interest of the writer’s thoughts on the subject by presenting him as an orthodox leftist.

His books are ambitious and often lyrical. Like their author, they can also be noxious and flawed | Culture