His 1955 novel, The Deer Park drew on his activities functioning as a screenwriter in Hollywood from 1949 to 1950. It was originally rejected by seven publishers owing to its purportedly sexual material ahead of staying printed by Putnam's. Hollywood novel since Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust. It was a surreal parable of Cold War leftist politics established in a Brooklyn rooming-household, and Mailer's most autobiographical novel.