Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/Criticism

Overview

First Editions

Key Critical Texts

Bibliographies

Biographies

Criticism

Cultural Backgrounds

A

• Adams, Laura, ed. (1974). Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press. Fourteen essays and reviews and one interview examining Mailer’s protean activities. Includes two essays on Mailer’s cosmology, a long bibliography and Adams’s useful introduction.

B

• Bloom, Harold, ed. (1986). Norman Mailer: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House. Sixteen reviews and essays covering Mailer’s major works and emphasizing the influence of Hemingway, with Bloom’s brief introduction.
• Braudy, Leo (1991). "Maidstone: A Mystery by Norman Mailer". Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture. New York: Oxford. pp. 60–63, 145–151. Rpt: Adams (1974). Informed comment on Mailer’s film and the Mailer-Pynchon dichotomy.
• —, ed. (1972). Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Thirteen essays on Mailer’s work through Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1); includes Steven Marcus interview (64.1) and a thoughtful introduction with useful insights into Miami and the Siege of Chicago (68.25).

L

• Lucid, Robert F., ed. (1971). Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work. Boston: Little, Brown. First major collection of essays: 13 on his work, four on his life and Paul Carroll’s interview (68.1). Contains checklist of his work and important introduction in which Lucid attempts to resolve the apparent conflict between Mailer’s public and artistic activities.