Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer has died of renal failure at the age of 84. Mailer won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Armies of the Night in 1968 and The Executioner's Song in 1979.
He was known for his biting prose and as an antagonist of the feminist movement.
Born in 1923 in New Jersey in the United States, Mailer wrote dozens of books as well as plays, poems, screenplays and essays.
He was co-founder of The Village Voice alternative newspaper in New York.
His first major success, the novel The Naked and the Dead, was a fictionalised account based on his experiences in the Army in World War II. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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