The Greatest thing in the world : short story, 1940 February 8, 9.

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The Greatest thing in the world : short story, 1940 February 8, 9.

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Early draft with annotations, including an earlier title considered by the author: The Suckers and the Setup. Dedicated to his college classmate, Philip J. Davis. With xerographic copy of printed version. Also includes "Reminiscence and provenance" (TMsS essay) by the donor, Philip J. Davis.

16 p.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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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...

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