Andre Deutsch, October 15, 1963: Difference between revisions

{{hatnote|{{NM}}’s letter to Andre Deutsch is the first to lay out the plan of serial publication of a novel in ''Esquire'' followed by hard cover publication by Dial Press and soft cover publication by Dell Books. Deutsch (1918-2000) was the principal director of Andre Deutsch Limited, Mailer’s British publisher from 1959-1966. Mailer married [[Beverly Bentley]] (1930–2018), his fourth wife, in December 1963. [[w:Alain Robbe-Grillet|Alain Robbe-Grillet]] (1922–2008) was a French novelist known for the flat, objective descriptions of his novels. The “big book” Mailer refers to is the one he promised in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]'' (1959), a novel “fired to its fuse by the rumor that once I pointed to the farthest fence and said that within ten years I would try to hit the longest ball ever to go up into the accelerated hurricane air of our American letters.” Walter Minton was the president of Putnam’s, Mailer’s American publisher for four of his books from 1955–1967, but not, as the letter indicates, ''An American Dream'', which was still unnamed at that time. Charles “Cy” Rembar (1915-2000) was Mailer’s first cousin, longtime lawyer and sometime literary agent, although it was Mailer’s new agent, [[w:Scott Meredith|Scott Meredith]] (1923–1993), who helped broker the deal with Dial and Dell after Mailer himself had successfully proposed the idea to [[w:Harold Hayes|Harold Hayes]] (1926–1989), the editor of ''Esquire''. Corgi, an imprint of [[w:Transworld Publishers|Transworld Publishers Limited]], published the soft cover British edition of ''Advertisements for Myself'' in 1963. [[w:Diana Athill|Diana Athill]] (1917–2019) was an editor and director at Andre Deutsch.}}