The Crime of His Time

Authors

  • Mark Olshaker Author

Keywords:

Oswald's Tale, Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy assassination, conspiracy theory, true crime narrative, history and nonfiction , American political culture

Abstract

Understanding the word “Tale” in the title is crucial to the understanding of what Norman Mailer is trying to do with this book. By relating the story of Lee Harvey Oswald’s adult life—where he went, what he did and who he met—Mailer hopes to shed light on the two critical questions that everyone has been asking since the day Oswald himself was gunned down in full view of the television public: Did he do it? And, if so, why?

Author Biography

  • Mark Olshaker

    Mark Olshaker is the author of eight nonfiction books, mainly on criminal justice and behavioral profiling, and five novels, including Einstein’s Brain and The Edge. He is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose subject matter has ranged from architecture to history, science to terrorism, current events to classical theater. He has written commissioned screenplays for several of his novels, as well as the IMAX film Stormchasers. He is executive director of the English-Speaking Union of the Nation’s Capital, consultant to the Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime, chairman of the Cosmos Club Foundation, a member of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation and on the board of The Norman Mailer Society. He and his wife Carolyn, an attorney, live in Washington, D.C.

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Published

2026-03-14

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): Beyond Fiction

Section

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