Mailer, Norman. Manuscript of The Deer Park 1955

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Mailer, Norman. Manuscript of The Deer Park 1955

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Photocopy of a typescript draft of the play. Includes a few handwritten changes. The play was later revised by Mailer.

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Mailer, Norman

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Norman Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1923 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. After graduation from Boys High School, he later graduated from Harvard University. Mailer served two years in Leyte, Luzon and Japan during World War II. In 1948, he produced his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, considered by many critics to be one of the most important novels to emerge from the second world war. Mailer's second novel, Barbary Shore, was described by its author as a "product of inten...