This Day in Mailerian History

March 14

The Naked and the Dead (1948) spent 62 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and reached no. 1. It established Mailer as a major postwar novelist while he was still in his twenties.

Source: Lennon, J. Michael. "Norman Mailer's Best Sellers." The Mailer Review 2.1 (2008): 270-271.

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