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  1. A prolific French novelist (of Litvak origins), Romain Gary (1914 – 1980) was also an aviator during WWII and a postwar diplomat. Mailer met him in Paris in 1947 – 48, and became reacquainted with him when Gary headed the French delegation to the U.N. in the early 1950s.