Amassed 11 best-selling books over 6 decades. With at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II, this was more than any other post-war American writer.

Mailer's works include The Naked and the Dead, Barbary Shore, The Deer Park, An American Dream, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings, Harlot's Ghost, The Castle in the Forest, and more.