NormanKingsleyMailer重点.ppt

Norman Kingsley Mailer?(1923-1-31－2007-11-10) Contents He was... American novelist; journalist, essayist; poet; playwright; screenwriter; film director,; film-maker, actor; political activist. Life (early life) Mailer was born in a well-known Jewish family in?Long Branch, New Jersey. His father, Isaac Barnett Mailer, was a South African-born accountant. Mailer graduated from Boys High School and entered?Harvard University?in 1939. At Harvard, he studied?aeronautical engineering空间飞行技术, and became interested in writing. He published his first story at the age of 18, winning?Story?magazin