1978

A facsimile of the manuscript of Mailer’s unpublished 1943 novel, A Transit to Narcissus (78.2), is published by Howard Fertig in January.

John Buffalo born to Norris on 16 April.

Mailer summers again in Mt. Desert, ME. Judith McNally becomes Mailer's secretary and continues in that role until her death in 2006.

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  Norris, John Buffalo, and NM (c. 1979).

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  NM and Jacqueline Onassis, 1978.