Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/First Editions

Overview

First Editions

Key Critical Texts

Bibliographies

Biographies

Criticism

Cultural Backgrounds

Most of these first editions also include bibliographies of reviews and essays. Many of the following contain a bibliography of reviews and/or critical articles.

The reviews were chosen because of:

1. representative quality;
2. intrinsic interest;
3. reviewer's reputation and/or relationship with Mailer; or
4. subsequent comment by Mailer.

Obviously, some reviews meet more than one criteria. The essays, which focus almost exclusively on one book and were written years or decades later, were chosen for their cogency and contextual merits. Each are divided according to work. Abbreviations that were not included in Lennon (2008a) or Adams (1974) are new to this project; these abbreviations will be used throughout.

Title	Abbr.	Publication Info	Year	Type	Entry
The Naked and the Dead *	NAD	New York: Rinehart	1948	novel	48.2 ‡
Barbary Shore *	BS	New York: Rinehart	1951	novel	51.1 ‡
The Deer Park *	DP	New York: Putnam	1955	novel	55.4 ‡
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster	WN	San Francisco: City Lights Books	1959	essay	59.8a ‡ ∞
Advertisements for Myself	AFM	New York: Putnam	1959	miscellany	59.13 ‡
Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)	DFL	New York: Putnam	1962	poetry	62.3 ‡
The Presidential Papers	PP	New York: Putnam	1963	miscellany	63.37 ‡
An American Dream *	AAD	New York: Dial	1965	novel	65.7 ‡ ∞
Cannibals and Christians	CAC	New York: Dial	1966	miscellany	66.11 ‡
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer	SFNM	New York: Dell	1967	collection	67.11
The Deer Park: A Play		New York: Dial	1967	play	67.13
Why Are We in Vietnam?	WWVN	New York: Putnam	1967	novel	67.15 ‡
The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer	BF	New York: Macmillan	1967	essay	67.20
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History	AON	New York: New American Library	1968	nonfiction narrative	68.8 ‡
The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations	IO	New York: Dell	1968	miscellany	68.11
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968	MSC	New York: New American Library	1968	nonfiction narrative	68.25 ‡
Of a Fire on the Moon	OFM	Boston: Little, Brown	1971	nonfiction narrative	71.1 ‡
King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century	KH	New York: New American Library	1971	nonfiction narrative	71.15
The Prisoner of Sex	POS	Boston: Little, Brown	1971	essay	71.20 ‡
Maidstone: A Mystery	MM	New York: New American Library	1971	screenplay	71.28
The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer	LP	New York: World	1971	collection	71.29
Existential Errands	EE	Boston: Little, Brown	1972	miscellany	72.7 ‡
St. George and the Godfather	SGG	New York: New American Library	1972	nonfiction narrative	72.17 ‡
Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers *	MAR	New York: Grosset & Dunlap	1973	biography	73.30 ‡
The Faith of Graffiti	FOG	New York: Praeger	1974	essay	74.9
The Fight	FIG	Boston: Little, Brown	1975	nonfiction narrative	75.12 ‡
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972	SHM	Boston: Little, Brown	1976	anthology	76.5
Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller	GAL	New York: Grove	1976	essay	76.12 ‡
A Transit to Narcissus	TTN	New York: Howard Fertig	1978	novel	78.2
The Executioner's Song *	ES	Boston: Little, Brown	1979	nonfiction narrative	79.14 ‡
Of Women and Their Elegance	OWE	New York: Simon & Schuster	1980	novel	80.15
Pieces and Pontifications	PAP	Boston: Little, Brown	1982	miscellany	82.16 ‡
Ancient Evenings *	AE	Boston: Little, Brown	1983	novel	83.18
Tough Guys Don't Dance *	TGD	New York: Random House	1984	novel	84.17 ‡
Conversations with Norman Mailer	CNM	Jackson: University Press of Mississippi	1988	collection	88.6
Harlot's Ghost *	HG	New York: Random House	1991	novel	91.26 ‡
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery	OT	New York: Random House	1995	nonfiction narrative	95.16 ‡
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography	POP	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press	1995	biography	95.38 ‡
The Gospel According to the Son *	GAS	New York: Random House	1997	novel	97.13 ‡
The Time of Our Time	TOOT	New York: Random House	1998	anthology	98.7 ‡
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing	SA	New York: Random House	2003	miscellany	03.7 ‡
Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings	MG	New York: Random House	2003	poetry	03.17
Why Are We at War?	WWW	New York: Random House	2003	essay	03.18
Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969	LAD	Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press	2004	letters	04.7
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America	BE	New York: Nation Books	2006	conversations	06.2
The Castle in the Forest *	CIF	New York: Random House	2007	novel	07.10 ‡
On God: An Uncommon Conversation	OG	New York: Random House	2007	conversations	07.39 ‡
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer	MO	New York: Random House	2013	collection	13.1
The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer	SLNM	New York: Random House	2014	letters	14.3
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s		New York: Library of America	2018	collection
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s		New York: Library of America	2018	collection
Lipton's, A Marijuana Journal: 1954-1955		New York: Arcade	2024	journal

Bibliography

Works Cited

• Adams, Laura (1974). Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow.
• Barringer, Felicity (March 1, 1999). "Journalism's Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Century's Top Stories". New York Times. Media. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
• Lennon, J. Michael (2016). "A Note on 'The Collision,' Norman Mailer's First Short Story". The Mailer Review. 10 (1): 10–11.
• — (2008a). "Abbreviations of Books By and About Norman Mailer". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 518–519.
• —, ed. (1988). Conversations with Norman Mailer. Literary Conversations. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi.
• — (1986). "Norman Mailer". In Martine, James J. Contemporary Authors: American Novelists. Bibliographical Series. 1. Detroit, MI: Bruccoli Clark. pp. 219–260.
• — (2013). Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• — (2008). "Norman Mailer’s Best Sellers". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 270–271.
• — (2008b). "Norman Mailer, First Editions". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 515–517.
• —; Lennon, Donna Pedro (2018). Lucas, Gerald R., ed. Norman Mailer: Works and Days (Revised, Expanded ed.). Atlanta, GA: The Norman Mailer Society. ISBN 978-1-7326519-0-6.
• Lucid, Robert (1974). Introduction. Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography. By Adams, Laura. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press. pp. xi–xv.
• Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1557781931.