1939 - Revision history

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			File:1937 NM with model.jpg\|Mailer with model airplane, 1937.
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	File:1939-NM.jpg\|Mailer in 1939.		File:1939-NM.jpg\|Mailer in 1939.

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			File:1939 NM, Barbara, Alex Mailer.jpg\|Norman, Barbara and Uncle Alec Mailer in front of the Scarboro in 1939.
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	[[Norman Mailer\|Mailer]] graduates from Boy's High School near the top of his 650-member class in June, and in late September enters Harvard planning to study aeronautical engineering. He was also accepted by M.I.T., but preferred Harvard, partly because M.I.T. required a year of prep school is required, and partly because the name Harvard resonated with Brooklyn girls.		[[Norman Mailer\|Mailer]] graduates from Boy's High School near the top of his 650-member class in June, and in late September enters Harvard planning to study aeronautical engineering. He was also accepted by M.I.T., but preferred Harvard, partly because M.I.T. required a year of prep school is required, and partly because the name Harvard resonated with Brooklyn girls.

	Discovers American literature over the winter (1939–1940), including James T. Farrell's ''Studs Lonigan'', Dos Passos's ''U.S.A.'', and Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath''. In 1940, he reads D.H. Lawrence's unexpurgated (and unpublished in the U.S.) novel ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. He said later that it "changed my sex life, or rather, accelerated it". Mailer loses his virginity to a Cambridge girl in late 1940.		Discovers American literature over the winter (1939–1940), including James T. Farrell's ''Studs Lonigan'', Dos Passos's ''U.S.A.'', and Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath''. In 1940, he reads D.H. Lawrence's unexpurgated (and unpublished in the U.S.) novel ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. He said later that it "changed my sex life, or rather, accelerated it".<ref>{{cite book \|last=Balbert \|first=Peter \|chapter=From ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' to ''The Deer Park'': Lawrence, Mailer, and the Dialectic of Erotic Risk \|editor-last=Bloom \|editor-first=Harold \|date=2003 \|title=Norman Mailer \|series=Bloom's Modern Critical Views \|url= \|location=Philadelphia, PA \|publisher=Chelsea House \|page=114 \|ref=harv }}</ref> Mailer loses his virginity to a Cambridge girl in late 1940.

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	File:1939-NM.jpg\|Mailer in 1939.		File:1939-NM.jpg\|Mailer in 1939.
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			== Reference ==
			{{Reflist}}

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	[[Norman Mailer\|Mailer]] graduates from Boy's High School near the top of his 650-member class in June, and in late September enters Harvard planning to study aeronautical engineering. He was also accepted by M.I.T., but preferred Harvard, partly because M.I.T. required a year of prep school is required, and partly because the name Harvard resonated with Brooklyn girls.		[[Norman Mailer\|Mailer]] graduates from Boy's High School near the top of his 650-member class in June, and in late September enters Harvard planning to study aeronautical engineering. He was also accepted by M.I.T., but preferred Harvard, partly because M.I.T. required a year of prep school is required, and partly because the name Harvard resonated with Brooklyn girls.

			Discovers American literature over the winter (1939–1940), including James T. Farrell's ''Studs Lonigan'', Dos Passos's ''U.S.A.'', and Steinbeck's ''The Grapes of Wrath''. In 1940, he reads D.H. Lawrence's unexpurgated (and unpublished in the U.S.) novel ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. He said later that it "changed my sex life, or rather, accelerated it". Mailer loses his virginity to a Cambridge girl in late 1940.

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[[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] graduates from Boy's High School near the top of his 650-member class in June, and in late September enters Harvard planning to study aeronautical engineering. He was also accepted by M.I.T., but preferred Harvard, partly because M.I.T. required a year of prep school is required, and partly because the name Harvard resonated with Brooklyn girls.

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File:1939 NM.jpg|Mailer in 1939.
File:1939-NM.jpg|Mailer in 1939.
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{{Pre1940s|state=expanded}}
{{1940s|state=collapsed}}

[[Category:Days]]
[[Category:Days in the 1930s]]
[[Category:Days in 1939]]