Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/First Editions
Most of these first editions also include bibliographies of reviews and essays. Many of the following contain a bibliography of reviews and/or critical articles. The reviews were chosen because of: (1) representative quality; (2) intrinsic interest; (3) reviewer's reputation and/or relationship with Mailer; or (4) subsequent comment by Mailer. Obviously, some reviews meet more than one criteria. The essays, which focus almost exclusively on one book and were written years or decades later, were chosen for their cogency and contextual merits. Each are divided according to work. Abbreviations that were not included in Lennon (2008a) or Adams (1974) are new to this project; these abbreviations will be used throughout. Best sellers are indicated with an asterisk after the title; entries that contain bibliographies are indicated by a ‡.
Title[a] | Abbr.[b] | Publication Info | Year | Type | Entry[c] |
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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[d] | essay | 59.8a ‡ |
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[e] | 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[f] | 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 | New York: New American Library | 1971 | 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[g] | 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 | New York: Random House | 2013 | collection | 13.1 |
The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer | SLNM | New York: Random House | 2014 | letters | 14.3 |
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s | New York: Library of America | 2018 | collection | ||
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s | New York: Library of America | 2018 | collection |
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Notes
- ↑ * indicates a best seller. See Lennon (2008).
- ↑ Most from Lennon (2008a, pp. 518–519).
- ↑ ‡ indicates the entry contains a bibliography of reviews and/or critical articles.
- ↑ This date is often listed as 1957 or 1958 (e.g. Adams (1974, p. 1) and Lennon (1986, p. 219) list 1957), but as Lennon & Lennon (2018, p. 29) explain, the City Lights publication is followed by the 1958 "Reflections on Hipsterism", so earlier than 1959 is unlikely.
- ↑ Abbreviated SF in Adams (1974, p. 4, passim).
- ↑ According to Lennon (2008a), sometimes abbreviated as WVN.
- ↑ According to Lennon (2008a), sometimes abbreviated as TOT.
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.
- — (2008a). "Abbreviations of Books By and About Norman Mailer". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 518–519.
- —, 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 Best Sellers". 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.