Norman Mailer: Works and Days

1934

Norman, eleven, continues at P.S. 161 in Crown Heights. The long science fiction story "The Martian Invasion," begun in the winter of 1933, is completed on this side of the year. A portrait survives from the year.

Norman Mailer, 1934

Winter 1933–1934

Completion of β€œThe Martian Invasion,” the long science fiction story written under the influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Flash Gordon radio program. See 1933 for the start of composition.

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