An American Dream (1965) shows Steve Rojack, trapped in an urban nightmare of sexual orgy, murder, and despair, escaping with what remains of his soul to the jungles of Yucatán. The Deer Park (1955) takes place at a kind of Palm Springs of the imagination and focuses on two of Mailer's most memorable characters, Sergius O'Shaugnessy, former Air Force pilot, and Elena Esposito, broken-down dancer and actress. In his next four novels, Mailer wrote from "intense political preoccupation and a voyage in political affairs which began with the Progressive Party and has ended in the cul-de-sac (at least so far as action is concerned) of being an anti-Stalinist Marxist who feels that war is probably inevitable." Barbary Shore (1951) is set in a Brooklyn rooming house. Bill, Mailer returned to the United States in the mid-1950s and founded, along with Daniel Wolf and Edwin Fancher, the newspaper Village Voice. Mailer insisted he was writing not only of a specific war but of "death and man's creative urge, fate, man's desire to conquer the elements." The work was a popular success and won him critical acclaim.Īfter attending the Sorbonne in Paris under the G.I. Many readers saw only the realism in The Naked and the Dead (1948). Borrowing naturalist techniques from John Dos Passos and James Farrell, a symbolist's stance from Herman Melville, and the instinctive journalist's observations from Ernest Hemingway, he described (in language considered objectionable in its day) the ironies of war and the inner conflicts of a cross section of American fighting men. From notes in letters to his wife, he fashioned a brilliant narrative around an Army platoon's taking of a Japanese-held Pacific island. In the Army, Mailer knew he was living the material for his third novel. Drafted into the Army in 1944, he served in the Philippines in an infantry regiment, as both intelligence clerk and combat reconnaissance rifleman. He won a college fiction contest, wrote for the Harvard Advocate, worked on two ambitious (unpublished) novels, and contributed a novella to an anthology. Mailer graduated from high school in 1939 and earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Harvard University. Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on January 31, 1923. Only in his later political journalism did he reach that level of achievement again. Norman Kingsley Mailer (born 1923), American author, film producer and director, wrote one of the most noteworthy American novels about World War II.
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