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Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book O...

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Norman Mailer's *Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery* is his 28th book.
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Norman Mailer won a Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for *Armies of the Night*.
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Norman Mailer won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for *The Executioner's Song*.
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Norman Mailer served as president of American PEN from 1984 to 1986.
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Norman Mailer published his first book in 1948.
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Two time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, NORMAN MAILER, joins us to talk about his new book Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1995. non-fiction) Mailer says we must ask "Who was Oswald?" as a prelude to asking "Who killed JFK?". The book profiles Lee Harvey Oswald's life.... Mailer published his first book in 1948. The Naked and the Dead Oswald's Tale... is Mailer's 28th book. In 1968, He won a Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night and was again a Pulitzer recipient in 1980 for The Executioner's Song. He is co-founder of The Village Voice and was president of AMERICAN PEN from 1984 to 1986.

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