About the Author
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of the
Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including
The Naked and the Dead;
The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize;
The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize;
Harlot’s Ghost;
Oswald’s Tale;
The Gospel According to the Son,
The Castle and the Forest and
On God. He died in 2007.
Dave Eggers is the award-winning and bestselling author of many books, including the National Book Award finalist
A Hologram for the King, as well as books for younger readers including
What Can a Citizen Do?, Her Right Foot, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, and
The Lifters. He is the founder of the independent publishing company McSweeney’s and the nonprofit organization ScholarMatch, in addition to cofounding The International Congress of Youth Voices and 826 Valencia, which has inspired similar organizations worldwide. Eggers lives in Northern California.
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