The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 20 to 11
A graduate of Boys’ High School, Mailer would go on to become one of the late 20th century’s leading figures of New Journalism with essays like “The White Negro” and books like Armies of the Night and The Executioner’s Song. (Heck, we even read his Lee Harvey Oswald biography.) But what will we remember him best for? It’s a three-way tie: co-founding the Village Voice; running for mayor (with our favorite-ever columnist, Jimmy Breslin); and penning the Itchy and Scrathy movie’s novelization.