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He was known for his biting prose and as an antagonist of the feminist movement.
Born in 1923 in New Jersey in the United States, Mailer wrote dozens of books as well as plays, poems, screenplays and essays.
He was co-founder of The Village Voice alternative newspaper in New York.
His first major success, the novel The Naked and the Dead, was a fictionalised account based on his experiences in the Army in World War II. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted November 10th, 2007 by Dinka
