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Norman Mailer (The Sixties in America)
Early Life
Norman Kingsley Mailer grew up in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Harvard University, and served in the Philippines in World War II. In 1948, he became a best-selling author with the publication of his first novel, The Naked and the Dead. His second novel, Barbary Shore (1951), which concerned Cold War politics, received a mixed reception, and his third novel, The Deer Park (1955), an exposé of Hollywood, also failed to match the success of his first novel. He turned to journalism, experimental fiction, and politics in the 1960’s, hoping to...
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