The University of Texas has acquired the papers of Pulitzer-prize winning author Norman Mailer for US$2.5 million.
Mailer's archives contain 10,000 letters, the manuscripts of all but one of his more than 40 books, research materials, photographs, tax and business records and a number of Mailer's unpublished short stories, journals, essays, notes, and screenplays. It also contains the manuscript of his first, unpublished novel No Percentage, written in the early 1940s.
Mailer said the time he spent in Texas training for the US Army during World War II influenced his decision to place his archive at the University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center.
"A man who went to a famous prep school in the early 1920s said afterward, `It was the worst experience of my life and the most valuable.' I can say the same about my time in the US Army," Mailer said in a statement.
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