** FILE ** Author Norman Mailer, seeking the Democratic mayoral primary nomination in New York City, is shown with his wife Beverly, right, and daughter Susie after casting votes in Brooklyn, N.Y., in this June 17, 1969 file photo. Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur, died of renal failure early Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84. (AP Photo,file)