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Upon | Upon his November 10, 2007 death at age 84, the provocative, prolific Norman Mailer left behind a huge body of work. The two-time Pulitzer winner published more than 30 novels, biographies and nonfiction works. The rights to Mailer’s ''oeuvre'' largely reside within two major publishing houses. Picador has ''The Naked and the Dead'' (1948) and ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' (1967). Vice President of marketing and sales Darin Keesler said the house is doing a rush reprint of ''Naked''. Meanwhile, Random — which will hold a memorial service for the writer in January — has hardcover rights to ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' (1984), ''Harlot’s Ghost'' (1991), ''The Gospel According to the Son'' (1997), ''The Castle in the Forest'' (2007) and ''On God: An Uncommon Conversation'' (2007), and Vintage has paperback rights to ''Barbary Shore'', ''An American Dream'', ''The Executioner’s Song'' and other works. | ||
And then there are Mailer’s archives: a 400-square-foot repository of letters, short stories, fragments of unfinished novels, screenplays and notes at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Mailer’s literary executor, ''Michael Lennon'', who is a Wilkes University emeritus professor of English, said the archives contain 500 boxes filled with “everything Norman wrote from age 10 to 84.” The Ransom Center houses works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams and others, but Lennon said Mailer’s is the largest author collection there. | And then there are Mailer’s archives: a 400-square-foot repository of letters, short stories, fragments of unfinished novels, screenplays and notes at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Mailer’s literary executor, ''Michael Lennon'', who is a Wilkes University emeritus professor of English, said the archives contain 500 boxes filled with “everything Norman wrote from age 10 to 84.” The Ransom Center houses works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams and others, but Lennon said Mailer’s is the largest author collection there. | ||
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This towering chutzpah in a man in his 80s and visibly frail was not a performance. This was no ''Old Man and the Sea''. It was the real thing, combining the qualities that made Norman unique among his peers; dauntless to the end, ready to fathom the deepest mysteries, he walked the knife edge where rashness and courage become indistinguishable. His magnificence never faltered. Neither did his genius. It was only his body that failed him.” | This towering chutzpah in a man in his 80s and visibly frail was not a performance. This was no ''Old Man and the Sea''. It was the real thing, combining the qualities that made Norman unique among his peers; dauntless to the end, ready to fathom the deepest mysteries, he walked the knife edge where rashness and courage become indistinguishable. His magnificence never faltered. Neither did his genius. It was only his body that failed him.” | ||
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