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What happened to Jack Henry Abbott after he was released from prison, largely as a result of Norman Mailer's advocacy?
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Which author was briefly imprisoned in Mexico in 1951 for having killed his common-law wife during a game in which they shot at each other?
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Which American writer was rejected for the US Army but instead became a pilot in the Canadian Flying Corps?
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What writer quipped, "Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
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Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
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The Naked and the Dead is by?
   
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For what book did Norman Mailer receive the Pultizer prize in Literature?
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Who said this about Jane Austen: "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone" ?
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Norman Mailer said this about which great author:
"The greatest mind ever to stay in prep school"?
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Which great American writer composed this dedication for one of his books? (His son's surname is left blank.)
"As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew ________, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor, and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors, to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book."
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Who did Norman Mailer call "the most perfect writer of my generation"?
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41 times (30.8%) |
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Who are the bestselling authors pictured?
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Who stated this?
"The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
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Which author did not win two Pulitzers for fiction (novel).
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14 times (40.0%) |
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In The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, what happens to Gary Gilmore?
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26 times (55.3%) |
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