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{{byline|last=Lennon|first=J. Michael|abstract=Perhaps no career in American literature has been as brilliant, varied, controversial, public, productive, lengthy and misunderstood as Norman Mailer’s.{{efn|Presented at the Mailer-Jones Conference, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin, November 10, 2011}} }}
{{byline|last=Lennon|first=J. Michael|abstract=Perhaps no career in American literature has been as brilliant, varied, controversial, public, productive, lengthy and misunderstood as Norman Mailer’s.{{efn|Presented at the Mailer-Jones Conference, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin, November 10, 2011}}|url=https://prmlr.us/lennmatt }}
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Mailer was the most important public intellectual in the American literary world for over 30 years, and along with other figures such as William Buckley, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag, helped establish the creative writer as important a commentator as politicians, pundits and professors.
Mailer was the most important public intellectual in the American literary world for over 30 years, and along with other figures such as William Buckley, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag, helped establish the creative writer as important a commentator as politicians, pundits and professors.