The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer/Biographical Outline: Norman Mailer
| 1923 | Born January 31, Long Branch, New Jersey; parents Isaac Barnett and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer. |
| 1939 | Graduated from Boys High School, Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1943 | Received B.A. degree, Harvard. |
| 1944 | Drafted into U.S. Army. Served as rifleman with 112th Cavalry out of San Antonio, Texas. Foreign service for eighteen months in Philippines and Japan. |
| 1944 | Married Beatrice Silverman; divorced 1951. |
| 1946 | Discharged from Army in May. |
| 1954 | Married Adele Morales; divorced 1962. |
| 1962 | Married Lady Jean Campbell; divorced 1963. |
| 1963 | Married Beverley Bentley. |
Children
- First marriage—Susan
- Second marriage—Danielle, Elizabeth
- Third marriage—Kate
- Fourth marriage—Michael, Stephen
Writings
| 1948 | The Naked and the Dead |
| 1951 | Barbary Shore |
| 1955 | The Deer Park |
| 1958 | “The White Negro”[1] |
| 1959 | Advertisements for Myself |
| 1962 | Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters |
| 1963 | The Presidential Papers |
| 1965 | An American Dream |
| 1966 | Cannibals and Christians |
| 1967 | The Deer Park: A Play;[2] The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer; Why Are We in Vietnam? |
| 1968 | The Armies of the Night; Miami and the Siege of Chicago |
Miscellaneous
| 1941 | Story Magazine’s College Award |
| 1953–1963 | An Editor of Dissent |
| 1956 | Co-founder of Village Voice |
| 1960 | National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant in Literature |
| 1968 | Produced, directed, and starred in three movies: Wild 90, Beyond the Law, and Maidstone. |
| 1969 | National Book Award in arts and letters for The Armies of the Night. Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for The Armies of the Night. |
Notes
- ↑ Dates given here are for first publication in book form. Dates used in my text for “The White Negro” and An American Dream deal more precisely with time of writing and first appearance of the work in print. The bibliography and the footnotes (especially the notes to the introduction) make this clear.
- ↑ This play ran for 127 performances in an off-Broadway production beginning January 31, 1967.