a great loss to the literary world indeed – whether you’ve enjoyed/agreed/disagreed with him, he was a man of conviction. His works have captivated me since secondary school, ‘The Naked and The Dead’ as a class assignment – some 20 years now.

Many years ago I happened upon a great biography of him, simply entitled
‘Mailer – His Life and Times’, by Peter Manso,
Simon and Schuster 1985 ISBN 0-671-44264-3
an amazing insight into a definitely interesting ‘character’.