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INDEX
Aaron, Chester, 169, 200, 229
Abbott, Jack Henry, 551–66
Adan murdered by, 543, 551, 558–59, 561, 562–64
at Bowery halfway house, 554–55
death of, 721
flight of, 559–61
Malaquais and, 603–4
murder trial of, 562–63
NM’s correspondence with, 518–20, 521, 526–27, 537, 544, 573, 587, 599, 603–4, 605, 619–20
NM’s refusal to distance himself from, 562
Norris and, 552–53, 555–56, 557
paranoia of, 552, 553, 557, 620
parole of, 543, 551, 565–66
as prison informer, 552, 556, 566
Zack’s relationship with, 619–20
Abbott, Rufus, 551
Abels, Cyrilly, 143
Abercrombie, Neil, 732
Abernathy, Ralph D., 426
Actors Studio, 226, 399, 537, 614, 624, 633, 653
Adams, Alice, 99, 105, 107, 108, 118, 331
Adams, Henry, 392
Adams, Laura, 569
Adan, Richard, 558–59, 561, 562–64, 722
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 174, 248, 326–27
Advertisements for Myself (Mailer), 47, 128, 150, 195, 200, 201, 215, 221, 224, 251, 252–55, 259, 265, 277, 315, 324, 434, 483,
516, 633, 727
“Biography of a Style” in, 247
British edition of, 302–3
modest sales of, 256
NM’s struggles with, 242–43, 245–47
positive reviews of, 256–58
Vidal’s review of, 261–62
“Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out” (Mailer), 127, 235–36, 239, 243, 310
African Americans, 77, 729
NM’s belief in sexual superiority of, 189, 209, 211
After the Lost Generation (Aldridge), 137–38
Aga Khan, Sadruddin, 280
Aitken, Janet Gladys, 295
Alaska, 347, 352–53
Albin Michel, 101
Aldridge, John, 137–38, 149, 162, 184, 211, 221, 230, 237, 259, 348–49, 378, 510, 538, 649
American Dream reviewed by, 349, 350, 351
Deer Park manuscript critqued by, 151–52, 154, 156
NM’s correspondence with, 434, 671, 672, 692
NM’s friendship with, 138, 260
Aldridge, Leslie, 211, 221–22, 230
Alfred A. Knopf, 179–80
Algren, Nelson, 126, 248–49, 374
Ali, Lonnie, 706
Ali, Muhammad, 264, 323, 337, 357, 434, 477, 479, 480–82, 490, 631, 699, 706–7
Ali-Foreman fight (“The Rumble in the Jungle”; 1974), 478, 479, 481–82, 699
Ali-Frazier fight (1971), 434, 478
Ali-Frazier fight (“The Thrilla in Manila”; 1975), 491–92
Allen, Hervey, 645–46
Allen, Jay, 211, 221, 229–30
Allen, Lewis, 163, 166, 170, 211, 214, 221, 229–30
Allen, Steve, 201, 275
Allen, Woody, 458, 539, 603, 607
Alson, Barbara, see Mailer, Barbara Jane
Alson, Larry, 281, 283–84, 356
Alson, Peter, 354–55, 508, 546, 732, 748, 759, 761
Amador, Frances, 722
Ambrose, David, 639
Ambrose, Fred, 639–41
Ambrose, Nancy, 639
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 601, 653
American Book Award, 540
American Civil Liberties Union, 460
American Conservative, 728
American Dream, An (Mailer), 41, 89, 92, 225, 253, 256, 296, 310, 328, 329, 330–31, 338, 340–42, 351, 366, 435, 487, 575, 589, 732
Aldridge’s review of, 349, 350, 351
Dial Press as publisher of, 332, 339
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