** FILE ** Norman Mailer, Pulitzer prize-winning author, is shown in in this Sept. 1984 file photo. Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, lengthy appreciations and ongoing discussions about their place in American letters. (AP Photo/David Pickoff,File)