Mailer's first book, "The Naked and the Dead," came out in 1948. I have to think it's semi-autobiographical, seeing as how he served as a rifleman for two years in the Phillipines.
Lefty, brilliant (if misguided), and quite vain.
ROTFLMAO! Many thanks!
Frank was an idiot. But, unlike good 'ol Norm, he was a patriotic idiot.
Frank Burns eats worms!
LVM