An Interview with Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, written when he was 25, propelled him to literary fame.
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Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, written when he was 25, propelled him to literary fame.
Norman Mailer once wrote that before he was 17, he'd formed the desire to be a major writer. That wish certainly came true. One political campaign, two Pulitzer Prizes and an unprecedented level of controversy later, he became a literary grandee unlike any other. This interview originally aired on Oct. 8, 1991.
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