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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

Contribution to Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut: A Festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on His Sixtieth Birthday, compiled by Jill Krementz, 99. New York: Delacorte. Five hundred numbered copies. In 147 words, Mailer talks of his pleasure in dining with Vonnegut, who “is almost a dead ringer in physical appearance for Mark Twain.”