Chapter 2 of The Finders Operation - M

Short Biographies of other Counterculture Influencers The Finders Operation Associated With: Nachem “Norman” Malech Mailer

Marion Pettie associated with numerous famous people and tried influencing the Beat Generation through people like Norman Mailer. Nachem “Norman” Malech Mailer was an American author, journalist, filmmaker, director, activist, and author. Mailer was born to a Jewish family in Long Branch, New Jersey, on January 31, 1923. Mailer’s parents were Isaac Barnett Mailer, a South African accountant, and Fanny Schneider, who ran a housekeeping and nursing agency. Mailer was raised in Brooklyn, New York. Mailer was accepted into Harvard University when he was sixteen years old and would later graduate from Harvard in 1943, majoring in Engineering services. Mailer married his first of six wives Beatrice Silverman, right before he was drafted into the United States Army in 1944. While stationed in Japan and in the Philippines, Mailer wrote to his wife Beatrice almost daily, and these hundreds of letters became the start of his first semi-autobiographical novel, which was about his experiences in World War Two, “The Naked and the Dead” which was published in 1948. Mailer stated that him being in the army was “the worst experience of my life, and also the most important.” Mailer would eventually author twelve novels throughout his life.[1] [2] [3] [4]