Word: mailers
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...just 25 when he became abruptly and unmanageably famous. It was 1948, America was looking for its Great War Novel, and there was Norman Mailer, with his jug-handle ears, his curly hair and The Naked and the Dead. The first of his 10 novels and more than two dozen other titles, it became a huge best seller. But fame soon turned fickle on him, or maybe vice versa. Mailer was too flighty, impious and vainglorious to fill the role of anointed American writer as the '50s conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades...
...you’re getting your money right back.”The bookstore’s award-winning Author Event Series, which brought 280 authors to Cambridge last year, has drawn a variety of famous and up-and-coming authors, including Al Gore ’69, Norman Mailer ’43, and a then-unknown Barack Obama.“When we had Barack Obama, I think there were, like, 20 people in the store,” says Gain.“[General Manager] Carole [M. Horne] and I were both there,” says...
...Mailer would go on to write over 30 books, but both roommates said “The Naked and the Dead”—a World War II novel that the writer published when he was only 25—was their favorite...
Although Kaufer and Weinberg did not see much of him after freshman year, both have fond memories of Mailer...
CORRECTION: The Nov. 13 news article "Peers Recall Quieter Mailer" misquoted Martin Lubin '43, a roommate of Norman K. Mailer '43. Lubin described Mailer as a "rebel without a pause," not a "rebel without a cause...