Today is the birthday of Norman Mailer (1923). His first novel, "The Naked and the Dead", it became the definitive literary novel about World War II, and made Norman Mailer famous at the age of 25. He went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes: for "The Armies of the Night" and for his nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song".
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TWA for Tuesday, January 31, 2017
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Today is the birthday of Norman Mailer (1923). His first novel, "The Naked and the Dead", it became the definitive literary novel about World War II, and made Norman Mailer famous at the age of 25. He went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes: for "The Armies of the Night" and for his nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song".