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Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World...
...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...
Kaufer, 85, recalled the novelette, as well. “We all started out getting C’s, Weinberg and I,” he said. “And then all of a sudden, [Mailer] started getting A-pluses, and we didn’t know why—until we started reading his essays, and they were all about sex! And he was a virgin...
...Weinberg called Mailer “kind of a loner” and didn’t recall him going on any dates his freshman year. Mailer then moved to Dunster House (Kaufer and Weinberg went to Winthrop), where he lived with Martin Lubin ’43 in his junior year...
According to Weinberg, it was the A-plus in English—along with joining The Advocate sophomore year and winning the National Short Story Contest in 1941—that gave Mailer something of a cause: writing...