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Portrait of Norman Mailer Photo: Ray Howard /AP Photo/TT (1969)

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Mailer, Norman

The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but grew up in Brooklyn. In social terms he came from the Jewish lower middle class. After obtaining a degree in engineering at the University of Harvard, he participated during the final phase of the Second World War in the battles in the Pacific Ocean, among other...

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Gender: Male

What his real name is, we don’t know – the name Bill Own is mentioned on one occasion, but everything points to that not being correct. Baroness Emmuska Orczy wrote three collections of short stories, in which the old, rather grumpy and inaccessible man sits at a corner table in a café, ties complicated knots in a piece of string and solves the even more complicated criminal cases that jour...

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