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Norman Mailer: Works and Days
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Discharged from the Army on 2 May at Ft. Dix, NJ.

From June to September, he and Bea rent a unit at Crow's Nest Cottages, North Truro, near Provincetown, MA, and he begins work on his war novel using many of the hundreds of letters written to his wife and family. He will spend the greater part of most summers for the next six decades in Provincetown, the artists' colony at the tip of Cape Cod.

Mailer's friend Adeline Lubell, an editor at Little, Brown, reads 184 pages of his manuscript, but no contract is offered by Little, Brown because of a negative evaluation by Bernard DeVoto, and the novel's obscene language. Mailer then turns to the New York firm of Rinehart. In November, they offer and Mailer accepts a $1250 advance for The Naked and the Dead (48.2).

Mailer in Brooklyn, 1946.

v t e Norman Mailer: Works and Days — 1940s
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1941	41.1
1942	42.1 42.2
1943	—
1944	44.1
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1947	—
1948	48.1 48.2 48.3 48.4 48.5 48.6 48.7 48.8 48.9 48.10 48.11 48.12 48.13
1949	49.1 49.2 49.2a 49.2b 49.2c 49.3 49.4 49.5 49.6

v t e Norman Mailer: Works and Days — 1950s
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1950	—
1951	51.1 51.2 51.3 51.3a 51.4 51.5
1952	52.0 52.1 52.2 52.3
1953	53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 53.5
1954	54.1 54.2 54.3
1955	55.1 55.2 55.3 55.4 55.5 55.6 55.7 55.8
1956	56.1 56.2 56.3 56.4 56.5 56.6 56.7 56.8 56.9 56.10 56.11 56.12 56.13 56.14 56.15 56.16 56.17 56.18 56.19 56.20 56.21 56.22 56.23 56.24 56.25 56.26
1957	57.1 57.2
1958	58.1 58.2 58.3 58.4 58.4a 58.4b 58.5 58.6 58.7
1959	59.1 59.2 59.3 59.4 59.5 59.6 59.7 59.8 59.8a 59.9 59.10 59.11 59.12 59.13 59.14 59.15 59.16 59.17 59.18 59.19