An American Dream Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966: Difference between revisions

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="18"|1963||align=left| January-February   || style="background:#fee;"| [[w:Playboy|''Playboy'']] publishes in two parts the NM-Buckley debate.  

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|align=left| March   || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets Beverly Bentley.

|align=left| Late Summer   || style="background:#fee;"| [[w:Scott Meredith|Scott Meredith]] becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to [[w:Dial Press|Dial Press]] and [[w:Dell Publishing|Dell Books]]. NM proposes and ''Esquire'' editor [[w:Harold Hayes|Harold Hayes]] agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.

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|align=left| Mid-October   || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''.

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|align=left| Mid-November   || style="background:#fee;"| The December ''Esquire'' containing NM’s final “Big Bite” column is published. NM announces in it that he will write a novel called [[An American Dream|''An American Dream'']], in eight installments, beginning in the January 1964 issue.

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|align=left|November   27 || style="background:#fee;"| NM begins working on the third installment.

|align=left|November   16 || style="background:#fee;"| After obtaining a Mexican divorce from Jean Campbell, NM marries Beverly Bentley in New York.

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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="17"|1964||align=left| Mid-January   || style="background:#dfd;"| The fourth installment of the novel is completed.  

|align=left| February   11 || style="background:#dfd;"| The fifth installment is completed.

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|align=left| March   17  || style="background:#dfd;"| Beverly gives birth to Michael Burks Mailer, NM’s first son, at about the same time that he completes the sixth installment.

|align=left| Early June   || style="background:#dfd;"| The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the ''Esquire'' version for book publication.

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|align=left| November   3 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''Johnson elected President.'''

|align=left| December   20 || style="background:#dfd;"| Working on the Dial Press galleys, NM completes a second revision of the novel.

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|align=left| January   27 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM writes to his Japanese translator that Warner Brothers has purchased the film rights to the novel.  It sells for $200,000.

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|align=left| March   15 || style="background:#ffd;"| Official publication date of ''An American Dream'' by Dial Press.

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|align=left| April   11 || style="background:#ffd;"| The novel rises to number eight on the bestseller list of the ''New York Times Book Review''.

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|align=left| May   21 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks out against the Vietnam War at the Berkeley campus of the University of California.

|align=left| July   15 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks at a Harvard teach-in against the Vietnam War.

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|align=left| August   6 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''Voting Right Act of 1965 signed into law by President Johnson.'''

|align=left| Fall   || style="background:#ffd;"| NM contributes to a ''Partisan Review'' symposium, “On Vietnam.”

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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="8"|1966||align=left| March   || style="background:#eff;"| The Dell paperback edition of ''An American Dream'' is published.

|align=left| June   || style="background:#eff;"| NM purchases a house at 565 Commercial Street in Provincetown.

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|align=left| August   26 || style="background:#eff;"| The film version of ''An American Dream'' premiers.

|align=left| August   28 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s review of [[w:Mark Lane (author)|Mark Lane’s]] [[w:''Rush to Judgment''|''Rush to Judgment'']], an analysis of the [[w:Warren Commission|Warren Commission Report]] on J.F.K.’s assassination, appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''.

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|align=left| October   29 || style="background:#eff;"| [[w:National Organization for Women established|'''National Organization for Women established''']].