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Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007

Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.
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  • Sunday, November 11, 2007 03:48 AM

    Norman Mailer remembered

    A great writer. I remember reading the Naked and the Dead in high school literature class in the late 1960's. First I had seen the movie starring a young Frank Sinatra,Earnest Borgnine and Burt Lancaster. A really great movie. I followed Mailer rants and editorials and Articles in the New Yorker for years. He will be greatly missed. A true American hero.

    William Scanlon

    Associate Professor of English

    Guangdong Baiyun University

    Guangzhou, China

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