The 'inner life' of literary giant Norman Mailer

Name: The 'inner life' of literary giant Norman Mailer
Uploaded: 2014-01-08T19:05:06Z
Duration: P554S
Description: Norman Mailer had quite a public persona. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning American fiction and nonfiction novelist, a journalist, a political candidate and a celebrity with a macho reputation. J. Michael Lennon, a long-time friend and literary executor for the larger-than-life writer, looks at the real person behind the public figure in "Norman Mailer: A Double Life."

Clip: 01/03/2014 | 9m 14s

Norman Mailer had quite a public persona. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning American fiction and nonfiction novelist, a journalist, a political candidate and a celebrity with a macho reputation. J. Michael Lennon, a long-time friend and literary executor for the larger-than-life writer, looks at the real person behind the public figure in "Norman Mailer: A Double Life."

Aired: 01/03/14

Rating: NR

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The 'inner life' of literary giant Norman Mailer

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