An American Dream Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966: Difference between revisions

|align=left| December  || style="background:#fed;"| NM publishes the first of six columns of reflections on [[w:Martin Buber|Martin Buber’s]] [[w:Tales of the Hasidim in Commentary|''Tales of the Hasidim in Commentary'']].

|align=left| December   20 || style="background:#fed;"| [[An Open Letter to JFK from Norman Mailer|“An Open Letter to JFK from Norman Mailer”]] appears in the [[w:Village Voice|''Village Voice'']].

|align=left| February   || style="background:#fee;"| “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in ''Esquire''.

|align=left| Late Summer   || style="background:#fee;"| Scott Meredith becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to Dial Press and Dell Books. NM proposes and ''Esquire'' editor Harold Hayes agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.

|align=left| Mid-October   || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''.

|align=left| Mid-November   || style="background:#fee;"| The December ''Esquire'' containing NM’s final “Big Bite” column is published. NM announces in it that he will write a novel called ''An American Dream'', in eight installments, beginning in the January 1964 issue.

|align=left| Early June   || style="background:#dfd;"| The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the ''Esquire'' version for book publication.

|align=left| Mid-July   || style="background:#dfd;"| NM break off work on the revision to the novel to cover the Republican Convention in San Francisco. His account, “In the Red Light,” appears in the November ''Esquire''.