He wrote 1948's "The Naked and the Dead" while studying at the Sorbonne
Norman Mailer: An Insight into Post-WWII Literary History (with ...  Mar 16, 2014 ... Shortly after he got back (while studying in France), Mailer wrote his best-seller, ... hugely successful novel The Naked and The Dead, published in 1948. ... because he had been studying at the Sorbonne in Paris at the time).
Notes of a Native Son, 1955, James Baldwin  Tayiab Ramzan  Oct 1, 2015 ... In 1957, Baldwin returned for a while to the United States to take part in the ... of the most wicked of citiesto this day, whenever I think of New Orleans, ... in his Sunday best and on his way to preach a sermon somewhere, when I was little. ... He was not a young man when we were growing up and he had...