Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. Mailer is considered an innovator of 'creative non-fiction' or ' New Journalism', along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early and wide renown. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II-more than any other post-war American writer. Norman Kingsley Mailer (Janu– November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. 9, including Susan, Kate, Michael, Stephen, and John