Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer dies

Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as The Naked and the Dead, died Saturday, November 10, 2007, his literary executor said. He was 84. Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. Michael Lennon, who is also the author’s biographer. From his classic debut novel to such masterworks of literary journalism as The Armies of the Night, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner always got credit for insight, passion and originality. Read more of his obituary at MSNBC.com.