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Frontmatter Home Preface Introduction Introduction to the Digital Edition
Bibliographies First Editions Key Texts for Mailer Studies Bibliographies Biographies Criticism Cultural Backgrounds
Works Works Index NM’s Introductions The Big Bite Mailer for Mayor Abbott Affair
Days Days Index Important Dates
Further Reading Norman Mailer's Bestsellers
Index Index of Names Works Categories Days Categories
Books • Projects

“Mailer Book Was the 2nd Choice of Fiction Advisory Panel” Article-interview by Herbert Mitgang. Chicago Tribune, 15 April. Mailer comments briefly on his pleasure at being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for 79.14. “Now I can go around quoting my favorite line from Voltaire—‘Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.’ ”