1943

Mailer graduates from Harvard on 27 May with a S.B. degree (with honors) in engineering sciences; the majority of his electives are English writing courses. After a visit to Provincetown, MA, with Bea after graduation, he goes to his parents’ apartment at 102 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn where they moved that spring.

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  Dunster House, Harvard, where Mailer lived from 1941 to 1943.

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  From the 1943 Harvard class album.

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  From the 1943 Boston University yearbook.