J. Michael Lennon

J. Michael Lennon is the late Norman Mailer's archivist, editor, authorized biographer. Norman Mailer: A Double Life (13.2) appeared in 2013, and Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (14.3) in 2014. His work has appeared in New Yorker, Paris Review, Playboy, Provincetown Arts, New York, Modern Fiction Studies, New England Review, Narrative, and Journal of Modern Literature, among others. Lennon's documentary, James Jones: From Reveille to Taps, was shown on PBS in 1985. He is Emeritus Vice President for Academic Affairs and Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University, where he continues to teach in the MFA Program, and is the founding President of The Norman Mailer Society. His new book, Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances, will be published in 2021 by Etruscan Press.

Selected Publications

• Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (1986). Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Critical Essays on American Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall.
• —, ed. (1988). Conversations with Norman Mailer. Literary Conversations. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi.
• — (2013). Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• —, ed. (2004). Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969. Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press.
• —, ed. (2014). The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. New York: Random House.
• —; Lennon, Donna Pedro (2018). Lucas, Gerald R., ed. Norman Mailer: Works and Days (Revised and Expanded ed.). Atlanta: Norman Mailer Society. ISBN 9781732651906.

Links

• Mike's Official Web Site
• Mike on Wikipedia
• The Riptides of Fame: June 1948 — Prologue to Norman Mailer: A Double Life
• “Why Mailer Matters”
• Contributions: Written and Edited