If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

The Castle in the Forest was awarded a Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review magazine. He publiNorman Mailerd 11 novels over a 59-year span. "
The book was also enormously successful selling more copies than any of his works except The Naked and the Dead.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31 1923 – November 10 2007) was an American novelist journalist essayist playwright film maker actor and political candidate.