George Mandel

âGeorge Mandel ( [1920 is an American novelist and short story writer.

A native of New York City, Mandel was educated at the Pratt Institute, The Arts Student League and The New School. His first novel, "Flee the Angry Strangers" (1952) has been described as the first Beat novel.

His subsequent novels include "The Breakwater", "Into the Woods of the World", and "The Wax Boom" (1962). His short story, "The Beckoning Sea" was included in the anthology "Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men" [Feldman, Gene and Gartneberg, Max (editors) (1958). Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. New York: Citadel Press] , and he also wrote a short story, "Adjustments" (1956) which appeared in an Alfred Hitchcock horror anthology [Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me [ghost edited by Robert Arthur] ed. Alfred Hitchcock (Random House 1963)] . He also wrote Crocodile Blood, a novel about a Native American Seminole girl, and Scapegoats (1970) well as two cartoon books, Beatville U.S.A. an d Borderline Cases. SatEvePost short story The Day The Time Changed

He was a friend of the novelist Joseph Heller [Heller, Joseph and Vogel, Speed "No Laughing Matter" (Putnam 1986)] .

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