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<p>Created page.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{WDside}}<br /> “Mailer, Norman.” In &#039;&#039;Twentieth Century Authors: First Supplement&#039;&#039;, edited by Stanley J. Kunitz, 628-29. New York: H.W. Wilson. Autobiographical entry. [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] makes a number of memorable statements in this sketch, which he wrote in December 1952, including his statement that “the peculiar juxtaposition of a Brooklyn culture and a Harvard culture have had the most external importance I could name in making me want to write.” He also states: “I have long suffered from an inability to combine the best of two quite separate attitudes about the writing of novels; briefly, the romantic and the realist.” Finally, he notes that “the virtue I should most like to achieve as a writer is to be genuinely disturbing,” and to “serve as the gadfly to complacency, institutions, and the dead weight of public taste.”<br /> <br /> {{1940s|stet=collapsed}}<br /> {{1950s|state=expanded}}<br /> {{1960s|state=collapsed}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Works]]<br /> [[Category:Works in the 1950s]]<br /> [[Category:Works in 1955]]<br /> [[Category:Biographies]]</div>

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