By: contrailjj - 14th November 2007 at 02:46
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’.
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November 11, 2007 at 10:24 pm