The writer Norman Mailer passed away on Saturday at age 84. He wrote "The Executioner's Song", a Pulitzer Prize-winning, hugely applauded book about the murderer Gary Gilmore. Out of the hundreds of voices heard in this "nonfiction novel" many were hostile to the church, but a few showed sympathetic understanding. The book was probably the first, most extensive exposure many readers had to Mormonism, for better or worse. A very tough, definitive takedown of the man's career can be found at:

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