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- ...kinds of nonfiction narrative, including one often passed over too quickly—biography. As Richard Poirier once wrote, Mailer was Melville without ''Moby-Dick'',6 KB (1,017 words) - 17:21, 2 January 2020
- ...e. He had just finished writing ''The Castle in the Forest'' — a novelized biography of Adolf Hitler, told from the point of view of a Demon — and it was7 KB (1,267 words) - 18:03, 7 July 2020
- ...atchelor]]'''<br />[[/No Pre-Fabricated Words: Norman Mailer and Inventive Biography/]]7 KB (984 words) - 07:42, 23 May 2022
- ...licking your user name in the upper right, and adding a brief professional biography. If you are a student, this will likely be a requirement at some point. ...f you do not receive it), including an abstract (if it has one) and writer biography.{{efn|PDF is how I get the final digital form of the journal, which is made25 KB (4,069 words) - 07:50, 25 June 2021
- ...that escaped Mike Lennon, and all I can say is that when he wrote Norman’s biography, thank God he was kind to me. He didn’t put really what he knew about me. ...scinating one, and he knew everything there was to know about it — for the biography, of course, but also for this collection of letters. I was down in Austin f43 KB (7,843 words) - 08:34, 4 July 2020
- ...|first=J. Michael|note=J. Michael Lennon, author of the recently published biography, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life'' (Simon & Schuster), interviewed {{NM}} in8 KB (1,476 words) - 07:51, 6 July 2020
- * {{cite book |last=Mills |first=Hilary |date=1982 |title=Mailer: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=Empire |ref=harv}} ...|last=Rollyson |first=Carl |date=1991 |title=The Lives of Norman Mailer: A Biography |location=New York |publisher=Paragon |ref=harv}}15 KB (2,376 words) - 09:32, 11 October 2020
- ...o perhaps has more life, more intensity, than the writer or the readers of biography. ...acclaim or ignominy on the biographical subject. In Norman Mailer’s case, biography does all of these and more.70 KB (11,273 words) - 17:43, 2 July 2021
- ...you do the same kind of research for this novel as you did in the Picasso biography or on ''[[The Gospel According to the Son]]''?10 KB (1,707 words) - 09:56, 8 July 2021
- ...ing trip in Egypt, and he wanted to know a bit more about the Deirdre Bair biography of Beckett. One Brownster made fun oh so ironically of “the American ''my9 KB (1,595 words) - 18:49, 7 July 2020
- ...ounterculture (''[[Prisoner of Sex|The Prisoner of Sex]]'', ''[[Marilyn: A Biography|Marilyn]]'', ''[[The Faith of Graffiti]]''), he has established himself as ...t one of his most embarrassingly revelatory nonfiction books is his recent biography of another definitive presence in search of an adequate incarnation, Marily19 KB (3,187 words) - 09:12, 7 March 2019
- ...ry definitions and Mailer’s own definitions sometimes diverge. In his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe, Mailer defines “factoids” as “facts which have no ...o make the change; Michael Lennon discounts this explanation in his recent biography of Mailer, and yet, the rumor persists.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=793}} Mailer’s25 KB (3,849 words) - 07:55, 6 July 2020
- ...of Mailer Studies” as is most clearly evinced by his magnificent landmark biography that you’re all aware of, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''. Over his care ...tion of ''An American Tragedy'' and ''The Executioner’s Song''. I wrote my biography of Dreiser about eight years ago, and there were two works of Dreiser’s t41 KB (7,274 words) - 07:54, 6 July 2020
- ...nto visual art, via his real-life experience of marriage to a painter, his biography of Picasso that so depended on his translation of the memoirs of one of Pic ...y years later. How could it be otherwise? Mailer had contracted to write a biography of Picasso, only to produce a 200-page dialogue about the violent act of cr25 KB (4,487 words) - 17:56, 7 July 2020
- {{byline|last=Sipiora|first=Phillip|note=[[J. Michael Lennon]]’s authorized biography, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life'', was published by Simon & Schuster on Oct ...e sensed that I was in there for the long run. But the idea of writing his biography never occurred to me, not consciously, at least.102 KB (18,334 words) - 07:38, 6 July 2020
- '''L''': But is it going to be a complete biography? ...many books about Picasso. And John Richardson is working on a four-volume biography. But I think I have an insight into him; there are a lot of parallels in ou24 KB (4,449 words) - 16:21, 5 July 2020
- ...amily). The panel was moderated by [[J. Michael Lennon]], whose authorized biography of Mailer, ''A Double Life'', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013.|ur ...the first reaction I had to the event—to the trouble—as you call it in the biography. After that there was a silence in the family. It wasn’t that we never ta31 KB (5,922 words) - 07:53, 6 July 2020
- ...of its writing, it was also as if I had discovered a play which was my own biography. And it deals with all the big issues: mortality, ambition, love, sex, weal13 KB (2,515 words) - 18:43, 7 July 2020
- ...f American Literature''. I have borrowed a few paragraphs from my literary biography of Mailer in volume three of this massive reference work and reworked them12 KB (1,899 words) - 17:54, 22 June 2019
- * Correspondence from Arthur Miller offering corrections to Mailer’s biography of Marilyn Monroe, 1973; ...wave of interviews, reviews and critical estimates. For example, his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe was followed in 1980 by a fictional account of a short pe22 KB (3,483 words) - 08:40, 8 July 2021