Norman Mailer, the two-times Pulitzer prize winner who was a dominating presence on the US literary scene across seven decades, has died today, his editorial assistant said. He was 84.

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Ernest Hemingway called Mark Twain’s book: The beginning of modern American literature.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . But it’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
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