With photos and correspondence never before published, this biography fills in the familiar outlines of Norman Mailer's colorful personal life--the wives and mistresses, the brawls and arrests--and charts Mailer's brilliant successes and notorious failures. Three 8-page inserts.
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Mary V. Dearborn is the author of MAILER: A BIOGRAPHY, as well as biographies of Henry Miller, John Dewey and Anzia Yezierska, and Louise Bryant. Dearborn holds a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She lives in New York.
A biography of the writer and social commentator traces the evolution of the controversial and provocative man who wrote such works as "The Armies of the Night," "The Prisoner of Sex," and "The Executioner's Song".
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