Wednesday, June 3, 2009

writer

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) son of a Southafrican jew and an adoring mother in brooklyn , newyork. His first Literary effort was a 250-page story called "Invasion from mars" which penned at the age of nine .How ever , it was not until he attended harvard that he decided to became a writer . In 1939, he graduated from Harvard university . During the World War ll mailor served as a Sergent in the United States Army . orginally he wanted to go to europe and be in the first wave of Invasion troops. In the Mid 1950,s mailor started to gain frame as an anti-establishment essayist. He had read max,s das capital and later said that it helped him to became a better writer .some selected work of norman mailor are mentioned below-


SOME SELECTED WORKS
* The Deer park (1955)

* The white Negro (1957)

* Advertaisements for myself (1959)

* The Presidential papers (1963)

* The Armies of the Night (1968)

* The Castle in the Forest (2007)


by adarsh v.s

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