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A native of New York City, Mandel was educated at the Pratt Institute, The Art Students League of New York and The New School.
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His first novel, Flee the Angry Strangers (1952), was one of the first Beat novels. 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, and he also wrote a short story, "Adjustments" (1956), which appeared in an Alfred Hitchcock horror anthology.
He also wrote Crocodile Blood, a novel about a Native American Seminole girl, and Scapegoats (1970) as well as two cartoon books, Beatville United States.A. and Borderline Cases, and the Saturday Evening Post short story "The Day the Time Changed".
The National World World War II Museum gratefully added to its collection his essay, "Men Weep," which he contributed in September 2014. lieutenant is an account of his service in the European Theater of Operations and his reaction to the Battle of the Bulge.
In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
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Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the United States. military.The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the United States. military.