厄普代克这个典型的美国人，他是一个伟大的白人新教徒作家，当时的文学时代由犹太人统治：索尔·贝娄、诺曼·梅勒和菲利普·罗斯。

Very much a Yankee, Mr. Updike was the great white Protestant writer in a literary era that was dominated by Jews: Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth.

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他用《冷血》毫不客气地宣称了“非虚构小说”的到来，随后他受到了狂乱的追捧。诺曼·梅勒将佩里称为美国文学里最伟大的人物之一。

In Cold Blood, which he immodestly heralded as a new form of non-fiction novel, was received with delirious approval; Norman Mailer dubbed Perry as one of the great characters in American literature.

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但是，他开始写短篇小说，在他获大学文学奖时，诺曼·梅勒知道自己真正该成为一名作家。

But he began writing short stories, and when he won a collegiate literary prize, Norman Mailer knew that his true calling was as a writer.

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