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

|align=left| February   || style="background:#fee;"| “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]].

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

|align=left| Mid-October   || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]].

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

|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 [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]] version for book publication.

|align=left| Mid-July   || style="background:#dfd;"| NM break off work on the revision to the novel to cover the Republican Convention in San Francisco. His account, “In the Red Light,” appears in the November [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]].