On 28 August, {{NM}}’s mother dies.
|File:1985 NM.jpg|NM in 1985.
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...an Dream'' ([[65.7]]) is serialized in ''Esquire'', January-August, with {{NM}} completing each chapter six weeks before it appears.
|File:1964 NM and Beverly.jpg|NM and Beverly in 1964. Photo by Richard Avedon.
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In February and March, {{NM}} attends meetings and writes statements in support of [[w:Salman Rushdie|S
|File:1989 Helen Vendler, NM, Leo L. Beranek.jpg|Helen Vendler, NM, Leo L. Beranek, 1989. Photo by Ivan Massar.
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{{NM}} continues work on ''Harlot's Ghost'' ([[91.26]]).
|File:1990 JB, Norris, NM.jpg|John Buffalo, Norris, and NM, c. 1990.
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On 23 April, {{NM}} receives (for the second time) Harvard University’s Signet Society Meda
|File:1995a.jpg|NM circa 1995.
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In July, makes his third experimental film, ''Maidstone'', on Long Island. {{NM}} plays a famous director, Norman T. Kingsley, and Rip Torn plays his half-
|File:1968-NM-Chris-Smith.jpg|NM in 1968. Photo by Chris Smith.
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|File:1976 NM, Helen Meyer, Irwin Shaw.jpg|NM, Helen Meyer, and Irwin Shaw, 1978.
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...Breslin|Jimmy Breslin]]. ''New York'', 5 May, 40–44; cover photograph of {{NM}} and Breslin. The most humorous of the accounts of how the Mailer-Breslin
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|File:1988 NM in Miami.jpg|NM at Miami Bookfair International, 1988.
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In November, {{NM}} divorces [[w:Beverly Bentley|Beverly Bentley]], marries and divorces Caro
|File:1980 Buzz Faber and NM.jpg|Buzz Faber and NM (1980).
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A facsimile of the manuscript of {{NM}}’s unpublished 1943 novel, ''A Transit to Narcissus'' ([[78.2]]), is pub
|File:1979 Norris, John Buffalo, and NM.jpg|Norris, John Buffalo, and NM (c. 1979).
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...ys]] in New York on 31 January; it closes 21 May after 127 performances. {{NM}} underwrites the production and loses money. The cast includes his wife [[
|File:1967 NM - Peter Keen.jpg|NM in 1967. Photo by Peter Keen.
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{{NM}}’s article on the 1996 campaign appears in the January issue of ''George
|File:1997.jpg|NM in 1997.
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In April, {{NM}} sells his 500-cubic-foot archive, including approximately 50,000 of his l
|File:2005 - Star Black.jpg|NM in 2005. Photo by Star Black.
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''Pieces and Pontifications'' ([[82.16]]), {{NM}}’s fifth miscellany, including 12 essays and 20 interviews, and edited b
|File:1982 NM in NYC.jpg|NM in NYC, 1982.
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In June, {{NM}} purchases a house in Provincetown, 565 Commercial Street, where he will l
|File:1966 NM.jpg|NM in 1966. Photo by Maury Englander.
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|File:1932 NM and Barbara.jpg|NM and Barbara, 1932.
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{{NM}} graduates from Harvard on 27 May with a S.B. degree (with honors) in engi
|File:1943-NM-Harvard.jpg|From the 1943 Harvard class album.
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{{NM}} takes a two-semester writing course (1940–1941) from Robert Gorham Davi
|File:NM-1941.jpg|NM at Harvard in 1941.
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{{NM}} visits Russia for the first time in March; returns with [[Norris Church M
|File:1984 Irving Penn.jpg|NM by Irving Penn, 1984.
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In spring semester, {{NM}} takes Howard Mumford Jones’s “Modern American Literature,” one of t
|File:1942-NM.2.jpg|Mailer in Washington D.C., 1942.
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|File:1962-Danielle-NM-Elizabeth.jpg|Danielle, NM, and Elizabeth, 1962.
|File:1962-Lady-Jean-Campbell-NM-Tibo-credit-Ivan-Massar.jpg|Jeanne Campbell, NM, and Tibo (1962). Photo by Ivan Massar.
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{{NM}} does two interviews (one in ''New York'' and the other in ''Playboy'') wi
|File:2004 NM and Barbara.jpg|NM and Barbara in 2004.
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''The Executioner's Song'' ([[79.14]]), {{NM}}’s third and most important collaboration with [[Lawrence Schiller]], is
|File:1979 - NM and Larry Schiller.jpg|NM and Lawrence Schiller, 1979.
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...gloom with the radiance of anarchism. As Jenny Silverman{{refn|Mother of {{NM}}’s first wife Bea.}} said of me once, “The little pisherke with the bi
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|File:1986 NM in Ptown.jpg|NM in Provincetown while filming ''TGDD'', 1986. Photo by Ken Regan.
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...ame. The essay was reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''. See ''[[NM:WD]]'' [[55.2]].}} I wrote a letter to Lasky saying that I would but on my
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In October, {{NM}} covers the “[[w:The Rumble in the Jungle|The Rumble in the Jungle]],”
|File:1974 NM.jpg|NM in 1974. Photo by Molly Malone Cook.
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On 1 May, {{NM}} announces his candidacy for mayor of New York (with journalist [[w:Jimmy
|File:1969 nm.jpg|NM in 1969.
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...abs on public agencies and officials. It fizzles out in a few years, but {{NM}} is prescient: the Watergate break-in occurs in June.
|File:1973 NM, Carol Stevens and Maggie.jpg|NM, Carol Stevens, and Maggie (1973).
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On 18 April, {{NM}} is awarded Harvard University's Signet Society Medal for Achievement in t
|File:1970 NM.jpg|NM speaks at an anti-war rally (1970).
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|File:1965 NM.jpg|NM in 1965.
|File:1965-NM-Ali-San-Juan.jpg|NM and Ali in San Juan, 1965.
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{{NM}} covers the August Republican Convention and publishes his account in the
|File:1992 NM and JML at Wilkes.jpg|Norman Mailer and J. Michael Lennon at Wilkes Univers
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11 April, Peter born to {{NM}}’s sister, [[Barbara Mailer Wasserman|Barbara]], then married to Larry A
|File:1955-NM-Dan Wolf.jpg|Mailer and Dan Wolf in the offices of the ''Village Voice'', 1
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{{NM}} publishes 17 weekly columns in the ''Voice'', the first 14 titled "Quickl
|File:1956.jpg|NM in 1956.
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Listening to Dizzy Gillespie{{refn| NM heard [[w:Dizzy Gillespie|Gillespie]] (1917-1993), one of the great jazz tr
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[[File:NM-80.jpg|thumb|400px]]{{Large|'''Norman Mailer at 100'''}}<br />{{Big|April 2
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Get a tape recorder for Lipton’s soliloquies.<ref>{{NM}} did buy one, as later notes indicate. A few of the recordings can be foun
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In late June, {{NM}} writes the introduction for and helps arrange the publication by Random H
|File:1980 Abbott and NM.jpg|Jack Abbott and NM, 1981.
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{{NM}}’s interview with [[Robert Begiebing]] ([[83.10]]), one of his three or
|File:1983 NM on Harvard Mag.jpg|NM on ''Harvard Magazine'', 1983.
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...re Vidal. New York: Random House. Vidal describes his first meeting with {{NM}}, and other encounters, here.
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...Blood of the Blunt” ([[12.1]]), a previously unpublished short story by {{NM}} is published in the ''[[The Mailer Review, Volume 6, 2012|Mailer Review]]
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On 25 February, {{NM}} is awarded the Gold Medal for Literature by the National Arts Club.
|File:1976 Matthew and NM.jpg|Matthew and NM in Wellfleet, c. 1975.
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...-god-problem/ On Sartre’s God Problem].” ''Nation'' 280, 6 June, 30, 32. {{NM}}’s mixes praise of Sartre with criticism for his atheism. See [[55.11]].
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...she has intestinal cancer and undergoes the first of several operations. {{NM}} is beset with various health problems: angina, arthritis, macular degener
|File:2000 NM at Home.jpg|Norman Mailer at his home in Provincetown, 2000. Credit: Kathy
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“Tolstoy and Chekov.” ''Paris Review'' 137 (winter), 48–49. {{NM}} recounts a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a conversation between the two g
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File:1955 Adele and NM.jpg|Adele and NM in felony court Dec. 29, 1960.
File:1960 Barbara and Norman.jpg|Barbara and NM, 1962.
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|File:1958 NM.jpg|NM in 1958.
|File:1958.jpg|NM in 1958.
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..., Philosophy: Understanding Mike Tyson.” ''Spin'', September, 40–44, 78. {{NM}} explains Tyson by reference to his “spiritual father, surrogate father,
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...y Martyn Harris. ''Telegraph Magazine'' (England), 5 October, 19–20, 22. {{NM}} is quoted only briefly in this somewhat disapproving piece on [[91.26]] a
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