Thanks again to everyone who helped me with this. William S. Burroughs was the correct answer. Andrew Vieira wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but since this list > is about helping people out, I thought it would be worth a try. I am > having trouble finding the answer to this trivia question, and I need to > knoe the answer by midnight Eastern Time. Here is the question: > > To whom was Norman Mailer referring when he called this writer "the only > American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by > genius?" > > The choices for answers are: > (a) William S. Burroughs > (b) J. D. Salinger > (c) John F. Kennedy > (d) Ralph Ellison > > I'm having trouble finding the answer on the web using search engines. > Can anyone help me? > > Andrew
