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Norman Mailer, 1923 - 2007

Author Norman Mailer is shown in this undated file photo.
Dec. 29, 1960: Norman Mailer and his wife, Adele, sit together in New York City felony court. He was appearing to answer an assault charge that he stabbed his wife after a party at their apartment. Adele Mailer declined to press charges.
Aug. 1, 1965: Norman Mailer is shown arm wrestling with heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali on the terrace of their San Juan hotel in this file photo.
March 26, 1966: Norman Mailer speaks at an anti-war rally at the bandshell in New York's Central Park in this file photo.
June 10, 1969: Jimmy Breslin, left, then a candidate for New York City Council president, and Norman Mailer are shown in this file photo.
June 17, 1969: Norman Mailer, seeking the Democratic mayoral primary nomination in New York City, is shown with his wife, Beverly, right, and daughter Susie after casting votes in Brooklyn, N.Y., in this file photo.
Jan. 20, 1971: Norman Mailer is shown in this file photo.
April 15, 1980: Norman Mailer discusses his novel 'The Executioner's Song' on the 'Today' show in New York City in this file photo.
September 1984: Norman Mailer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is shown in this file photo.
May 4, 1998: Norman Mailer gestures during an interview at his home in this file photo in New York.
May 5, 1998: Norman Mailer is interviewed at his home in this file photo in New York.
May 5, 1998: Author Norman Mailer is interviewed at his home in New York. Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur, died of renal failure early Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
May 5, 1998: Norman Mailer gestures as he is interviewed at his home in this file photo in New York.
May 6, 1998: Boxing great Muhammad Ali takes a swing at author Norman Mailer at a party celebrating of Mailer's 50th anniversary as a writer and the publication of his literary retrospective 'The Time of Our Time' in this file photo in New York.
Jan. 28, 2003: Norman Mailer reflects on turning 80 during an interview in his Brooklyn Heights apartment in this file photo in New York.
Jan. 28, 2003: Norman Mailer reflects on turning 80 during an interview in his Brooklyn Heights apartment in this file photo in New York.
June 27: Authors Gunter Grass, left, and Norman Mailer pose together after a lecture entitled 'The 20th Century on Trial' at the New York Public Library.
June 27: Norman Mailer attends a lecture entitled 'The 20th Century on Trial' at the New York Public Library in this file photo in New York.