ALL-TIME AMERICAN WRITERS TOURNAMENT
NO WRITER tried harder to be charismatic. No author worked harder at being a celebrity– from running for mayor of New York City to directing and starring in low-budget movies to trying to levitate the Pentagon to writing a book about Marilyn Monroe to appearing on television talk shows to stabbing his wife, Norman Mailer was always chasing headlines. Mailer took the phrase “Advertisements for Myself” (one of his book titles) literally. The Harvard grad’s main problem was he didn’t have a lot of charisma. Articulate? Yes. Verbose? Very much. Norman Mailer could talk all day. But his writing and persona lacked the certain “Oomph!” which goes along with being a true celebrity.
Still, we give him an “A” for trying, and place him at Number Fifteen of America’s Most Charismatic All-Time Writers.
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If Norman Mailer is charismatic, then Howard Stern is a refined gentleman.
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A celebrity of the media age, we give him points for attempting to be charismatic, self-promoting/self-advertising more than any author ever has.
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