Norman Mailer, Co-Founder of The Village Voice, Dies
By AAN Staff
november 12, 2007 08:25 am
Mailer, who started the country's first alt-weekly with Daniel Wolf and Edwin Fancher in 1955, died early Saturday in Manhattan. He was 84. After he finished his third novel, Mailer put up $10,000 to launch the new weekly and came up with the name, the
Voice reports. "Though Mailer wanted the paper to be 'outrageous' and 'give a little speed to that moral and sexual revolution which is yet to come upon us,' his partners, he said, were more interested in making it a successful, established venture," according to the
Voice. He soon started writing a column in the paper, only to quit the paper four months later because he said there were typographical errors in his column.
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