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...conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
...will compete with such books as Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe," Churchill's "The Gathering Storm," Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in The Human Male," and "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer '41 for the Gutenberg Award, to be given by the Book Manufacturer's Institute...
Perhaps the most interesting selection in the magazine is John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...
...very-bestseller of 1948 was not The Naked and the Dead after all. Norman Mailer's big, raw war novel (TIME, May 10) had held the lead all summer and much of the fall, sold 125,000 copies. But by New Year's Day, Mailer had lost the race. The man who passed him in the stretch was an old hand at turning out bestsellers. Lloyd C. Douglas' The, Big Fisherman (TIME, Nov. 22)-a novel about Saint Peter-had hit the stands in mid-November, sold a whopping 350,000 copies in a scant six weeks...
Nobody wrote the "Great War Novel" that everybody has taken for granted ever since V-day. But a few writers did try to record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there. Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions also made a great splash, though with far less literary justification...