Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/First Editions

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	58.8
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	short story 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	1971	New York: New American Library	nonfiction narrative	71.15
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		2013	collection
The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer	SLNM		2014	letters
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s			2018	collection
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s			2018	collection

Bibliography

Citations

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. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
• — (2008a). "Abbreviations of Books By and About Norman Mailer". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 518–519. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
• —, 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 Bestsellers". 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.