Norman Mailer died of acute renal failure on Nov 10 in NYC. He’s one of my favorite American writers and for those who are not familiar with him he’s one of a bunch who coined the term “creative nonfiction” (aka New Journalism) and he is the author of books, such as The Naked and The Dead, Why are we in Vietnam?, An American Dream or the recent The Castle In The Forrest.

Norman Mailer was born and raised in Brooklyn. He studied engineering at Havard but soon decided to become a writer instead. As a notorius macho, he drank, smoked pot and liked to get into fights. He saw himself as a rather rough man of letters and enjoyed life to the fullest. He was 84 years old.