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'''By: [[J. Michael Lennon]]'''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |date=Fall 2008 |title=Norman Mailer's Bestsellers |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=270–271 }} | |||
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'''In six decades of work, Norman Mailer made the best seller list with eleven of his books, more than any other post-war American writer.''' | '''In six decades of work, Norman Mailer made the best seller list with eleven of his books, more than any other post-war American writer.''' | ||
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It is sometimes glibly claimed by “assorted bravos of the media and the literary | It is sometimes glibly claimed by “assorted bravos of the media and the literary world”, as they are referred to in Armies (14), that Mailer indulged in too many extra-curricular pursuits — running for mayor of New York, making experimental films, writing columns for various periodicals, boxing, appearing on talk shows, protesting the Vietnam War, lecturing at colleges, etc. — and thus lessened his literary achievement. His forty-plus books and six decades of best sellers, most of them critically acclaimed, belie this canard. | ||
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