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When most people think of Norman K. Mailer ’43, the first image that comes to mind may well be of a strong-headed writer, blue eyes burning, actively seeking out public attention. But in 1939, according to his two roommates then, Mailer was a shy, 16-year-old freshman at Harvard who dazzled his English teacher with writing about...
...Norman Mailer as a freshman was completely different from the Norman Mailer who’s been portrayed in the newspapers for the past sixty years,” one roommate, Maxwell Kaufer ’43, said in a telephone interview yesterday. “He was very quiet, majored in mathematics, and was somewhat nerdy...
...Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who helped found the creative nonfiction style known as New Journalism, died of acute renal failure on Saturday...
...Mailer started to change after his freshman year, evolving into the character he would become known for in his six-decade career. According to a book by Peter Manso, Mailer began to voice his opinions more often after joining the campus literary magazine, The Advocate, in his sophomore year...
...most vivid memory that fellow roommate Richard L. Weinberg ’43 had of Mailer was his A-plus on a novelette in English A, the 1939 version of Expos. Weinberg, 85, said he didn’t remember what the piece was about...