Norman Mailer was born in 1923 and published his first book,THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, in 1948. THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. He has written thirty books. Author Location: New York Armies of the Night/The Executioner's Song/The Naked and the Dead/Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man/Oswald's Tale/Harlot's Ghost/The Gospel According to the Son (0 349 11014 X)