Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/Biographies

Overview

First Editions

Key Critical Texts

Bibliographies

Biographies

Criticism

Cultural Backgrounds

A—B

• Aldrich, Nelson, ed. (2008). George, Being George. New York: Random House. pp. 172–181, 374–376, 396–397. See 77.13.
• Atlas, James (September 9, 1979). "Life with Mailer". New York Times Magazine. pp. 52–55, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 102, 104, 107. Retrieved 2019-03-21. See 79.9.
• Baldwin, James (1961). "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. New York: Dial. Rpt: Lucid (1971), Braudy (1972). See 57.1.
• Brower, Brock (1968). "Norman". Other Loyalties: A Politics of Personality. New York: Atheneum. pp. 105–137. See 65.20.

C—E

• Christian, Frederick (August 1963). "The Talent and the Torment". Cosmopolitan. pp. 63–67. See 63.34.
• Cohen, Marcia (1988). "Town Bloody Hall". The Sisterhood: The True Story of the Women Who Changed the World. New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 288–306. See 71.20.
• Cook, Bruce (1971). The Beat Generation. New York: Scribner's. pp. 93–98, 168–169. See 61.4.
• — (November 1972). "Aquarius Rex". National Observer. pp. 1, 15. Rpt: Adams (1974). See 61.4.
• Dearborn, Mary V. (1999). Mailer: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. See 99.8.
• Denby, David (April 20, 1998). "The Contender". New Yorker. pp. 60–66, 68–71. Retrieved 2019-03-21. Excellent profile. See 98.3.

F—H

• Flaherty, Joe (1970). Managing Mailer. New York: Coward-McCann. Account of Mailer’s 1969 campaign for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York by his campaign manager. See 70.7.
• Greer, Germaine (1986). "My Mailer Problem". The Madwomen’s Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. pp. 78–89. Rpt: Bloom (1986). See 71.27.
• Hamill, Pete (2003). "Norman Mailer". In Newfield, Jack. American Rebels. New York: Nation Books. pp. 1–6. See 61.22a, 95.44.
• "Harvard: America's Great University Now Leads World". Life. May 1941. pp. 89–99. Journalistic sketch, with many photographs, appearing at the end of Mailer’s sophomore year.
• Hayden, Hiram (1974). Words and Faces. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. 234–235, 263–264. Comment on the rejection of The Deer Park (55.4) by Random House.

J–K

• Johnston, Glenn T., ed. (2005). We Ain’t No Heroes: the 112th Cavalry in World War II. Denton: University of North Texas Press. passim.
• Jones, Kaylie (2009). Lies My Mother Never Told Me. New York: Morrow. pp. 229–230. See 99.2.
• Krim, Seymour (1970). Shake It for the World Smartass. New York: Dial. pp. 89–99, 111–119, 125–151. Three essays on Mailer’s powerful presence in the literary world. See 61.23.
• Knox, Mickey (2004). The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita: The Adventures of an Actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome. New York: Nation Books. See 67.13, 04.4.

L

• Land, Myrick (1983). "Mr. Norman Mailer Challenges All the Talent in the Room". The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds. San Francisco: Lexikos. p. 228–244. See 63.40.
• Lennon, J. Michael (1989). "Norman Mailer". Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Volume 6: Broadening Views, 1968-1988. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research. pp. 162–168.
• — (2013). Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. Authorized biography. See 13.2.
• —, ed. (2014). The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. New York: Random House. 714 letters, 1941–2007, with biographical summaries by decade. See 14.3.
• Lucid, Robert F. (1986). "Prolegomenon to a Biography of Mailer". In Lennon, J. Michael. Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Boston: G. K. Hall. pp. 174–184. See 71.29.

M

• Macdonald, Dwight (1985). "Massachusetts vs. Mailer". Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts. New York: Grossman. pp. 194–209. Preface by Norman Mailer. Rpt: Lucid (1971). See 60.8, 83.57.
• Mailer, Adele (1997). The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer. New York: Barricade Books. Memoir by Mailer’s second wife. See 97.11.
• Mailer, Norman (October 6, 2008). "In the Ring". The New Yorker. Life and Letters. Retrieved 2018-09-23. A sampling of Mailer's letters. See 08.1.
• Mailer Review (2008), 11–215. Recollections of Mailer and tributes to him from his family and friends, many given at his April 9, 2008 memorial at Carnegie Hall.
• Mallory, Carole (2009). Loving Mailer. Beverly Hills, CA: Phoenix Books. See 95.34.
• Manso, Peter, ed. (1970). Running Against the Machine: A Grass Roots Race for the New York Mayoralty by Norman Mailer, Jimmy Breslin, Peter Maas, Gloria Steinem and Others. New York: Doubleday. See 69.80.
• — (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Simon and Schuster. Oral biography. See 85.13.
• Martien, Norman (1967). "Norman Mailer at Graduate School or, One Man's Effort". In Solotaroff, Theodore. New American Review, No. 1. New York: New American Library. pp. 233–241. Account of a Mailer university visit. Rpt: Lucid (1971).

• Menand, Louis (October 21, 2013). "The Norman Invasion: the Crazy Career of Norman Mailer". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 89 (33): 86–95. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
• Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1557781931.