in occupation of Japan, 78–81
in Philippines, 65–77
Mailer, Norman, at Harvard, 25–55
on Advocate board, 37, 39, 42, 47
Advocate’s rejection of, 30
on football team, 36
graduation of, 55
pinup collection of, 26–27
short stories written by, 30, 33, 34–35, 37–38, 42, 46–48
in Signet Society, 38–39, 42
as unprepared, 26
Mailer, Norman, journals of:
Bellevue diary, 287–88
at Harvard, 29–30, 32, 43, 45, 48, 53–54
of 1952, 140–42, 144, 146
and NM’s need for fame, 2–3
wartime letters to Bea as substitute for, 60
see also “Lipton’s Journal” (Mailer)
Mailer, Norman, writings of:
author as character in, 322
in childhood, 15–16
Commentary columns of, 7
Davis’s mentoring of, 35, 37
drafts of, shared with NM’s friends and family, 152–53
dualism as theme in, 359, 434, 453, 463, 468–69, 635–36
Esquire columns of, 300, 315, 316–17, 320, 324, 333, 344
excrement as subject in, 310–11, 575, 579
experience as primacy of, 160
“fear ladder” concept in, 50–51
in girlie magazine, 224, 228
good review/bad review advertisements for, 134, 198
Harvard short stories of, 30, 33, 34–35, 37–38, 42, 46–48
Henry Adams’s influence on, 392
Las Vegas as touchstone in, 331
Lawrence’s influence on, 439
in multinovel projects, 144–45, 151, 154, 495
narcissistic cycles in, 727
nature as depicted in, 63, 379
and NM’s approach to writing novels, 159–60
NM’s routine in, 714–15
occasional pieces of, 324, 337
point of view in, 155–56, 236
politics as underlying theme of, 160
power as theme of, 4, 64, 93, 262
redundancy in, 636
self-interviews, 300–302
sex in, 32–33, 57–58
smell as key subject in, 331, 579, 583, 584
on sports, 320–22
Story contest won by, 39–40, 48
style in, 257–58
unfinished “big novel” of, 243, 244, 251, 254, 256, 273, 300, 305, 306, 310, 312, 324, 325–26, 360, 362
use of third-person personal in, 383, 386, 396, 420, 483
Village Voice columns of, 200–202, 203–5, 212, 228, 333
see also Spooky Art, The: Thoughts on Writing (Mailer); specific titles
Mailer, Norris Church (NM’s sixth wife), 153, 343, 346, 354, 489–91, 537, 538–39, 599, 623, 713, 743, 744
Abbott and, 552–53, 555–56, 557
acting career of, 624
brief affairs of, 662, 663, 667
cancer of, 708, 725, 736, 747, 754
Capote’s warning about NM to, 531
Carol’s friendship with, 500, 758
collaborations of NM and, 581
Donaldson’s interview with NM and, 661
dual personas of, 488
fiction by, 624, 708–11, 717, 730, 755, 757, 760
in last move to Brooklyn, 754–55
marriage of NM and, 124, 525, 537, 549, 550, 608, 624, 626, 628, 663–64, 667, 695, 717–18, 722, 725, 731, 741–42, 761
modeling by, 493–94
near-breakup of NM and, 652, 654–55, 660–63
with NM on Harlot’s Ghost book tour, 659–60
and NM’s affair with Mallory, 594–95, 610, 691
NM’s confessions to, 656
NM’s correspondence with, 487–89, 490, 494, 498
and NM’s death, 762, 763
and NM’s declining health, 756, 758
on NM’s fascination with violence, 564
NM’s finances handled by, 507
NM’s first meeting with, 484–85
NM’s infidelities and, 594–95, 610, 626, 651, 652, 654–57, 662–63, 666–67, 681, 682, 691
and NM’s political ambitions, 697
NM’s “treaty” with, 742
painting by, 601, 616, 628
playwriting of, 624
pregnancy of, 508, 517, 522
premarital relationship of NM and, 485–86, 487, 491–93, 494, 498, 499, 500, 506–7, 513–14, 522
as Provincetown Repertory Theater artistic director, 723, 729
Ticket to the Circus by, 124, 485, 494, 500, 507, 564, 626, 723
time split between Provincetown and Brooklyn by, 748–49
ultimatum letter of, 656, 659
wedding of NM and, 524–25
Zelda, Scott, & Ernest performed by, 715–17, 718, 725
Mailer, Stephen McLeod, 364, 402, 430, 475, 490, 491, 499, 508, 525, 546, 601, 606, 661, 732, 743, 747, 762
acting career of, 616, 622, 623, 737
on NM’s betting schemes, 508–9
NM’s relationship with, 616
Mailer, Susan, 125, 126, 130, 134, 151, 156, 158, 161, 162, 172, 176, 178, 216, 218, 239, 267, 297, 382, 429, 444, 459, 470, 478, 486, 491, 502, 537, 539, 549, 570, 601, 604, 606, 627, 656, 731, 732, 758
and Adele’s stabbing, 290–91
birth of, 119, 121
NM’s letters to, 692–93
psychoanalytic career of, 615–16
Mailer and Troll, 124
Mailer family:
Bea’s first meeting of, 50, 55
Crown Heights apartment of, 16, 17
Flatbush apartment of, 15
in Johannesburg, 7, 10
“Mailer Log” (Lennon), 714–15, 734, 735–36, 750
Main Event, The (film), 547
Majeski, Bill, 558–61, 562, 666, 672, 722, 759
Making It (Podhoretz), 378, 394–96
Malamud, Bernard, 260
Malaquais, Dominique, 555
Malaquais, Elisabeth, 689–90
Malaquais, Galy, 118, 121, 135, 136, 210
Malaquais, Jean, 100, 113, 116, 118, 129, 135, 136, 153, 195, 205, 208, 210, 296, 370, 555, 559, 566
Abbott and, 603–4
on Barbary Shore, 135
death of, 690
Naked and the Dead translated by, 101, 112, 119, 121
NM on, 100–101
NM’s ARTE interview and break with, 687–90, 694
NM’s changed relationship with, 185–86, 527
and NM’s JFK assassination obsession, 377
NM’s letters to, 211, 212, 224, 225–26, 615
as NM’s political mentor, 101, 111, 112, 116–17, 118, 121, 164, 166, 526–27, 598, 688
screenwriting of, 118, 122, 126
Mallory, Carole, 657, 661
interviews by, 593–94, 626
NM’s affair with, 592–97, 610, 625–26, 655, 691
NM’s break with, 657
Malraux, André, 32, 46, 51, 335, 688
Maltz, Albert, 83
Managing Mailer (Flaherty), 413, 420
Man and Superman (Shaw), 723
Man in Full, A (Wolfe), 707, 710
reviews of, 710
Mann, Donald, 60, 65, 75, 76
Mann, Thomas, 46, 194
Man’s Fate (Malraux), 46, 52
Manso, Peter, 395, 414, 415
Manson, Charles, 447, 477, 514
“Man Who Studied Yoga, The” (Mailer), 145–46, 178, 235, 340
Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 126, 249
Marantz, Harold, 26, 36
Marchi, John, 419
March on the Pentagon, 381, 383, 386, 387–88, 390, 391, 410, 428
see also Armies of the Night, The
Marcus, Steven, 60, 228, 354, 364, 378, 495
Marilyn (Mailer), 241, 458, 462–70, 536, 603, 649
on Monroe’s divided self, 463, 468–69
NM’s disagreements with
Schiller over, 465–66, 470
photographs in, 464–65
plagiarism accusations over, 466
reviews of, 468
Time cover story on, 466–67, 469–70
writing of, 462–63
Marilyn: An Untold Story (Rosten), 462
Marilyn Monroe (Zolotow), 462
Marina and Lee (McMillan), 678
Marion Federal Penitentiary, 518, 542, 552, 556
Markel, Robert, 462, 465–66
Marlow, Hugh, 372, 374
Marquand, John, Jr., 258
Marshall Plan, 745
Martin, David C., 648
Martin, Shago (char.), 328, 341
Martinez, Julio (char.), 75, 86, 87–88
Martinez, Ysidro, 75
Marx, Karl, 133, 185
Marxism, 113
Maskovsky, Clifford, 61, 62, 84
Maslin, Janet, Castle in the Forest reviewed by, 752–53
Mason, Carolyn, 412
Massie, Allen, 683
Massie, Robert K., 637
Matter of Degrees, A (film), 615
Matthiesen, Red, 75–76, 81
Matthiessen, F. O., 31–32, 35, 90, 99, 116
Matthiessen, Peter, 556
Maugham, Somerset, 68–69, 74
May, Elaine, 627
“Maybe Next Year” (Mailer), 47, 48
Mead, Margaret, 147
“Meaning of Western Defense, The” (Mailer), 133
media, and NM’s relationship with Abbott, 563–66
Mekas, Jonas, 375, 403, 629
Melanie, Cherry (char.), 340–42, 348, 487
Melville, Herman, 99, 128, 424, 453, 496, 619, 736
Menand, Louis, 433, 450
Mencken, H. L., 270
Menenhetet I (char.), 502, 575, 579–81
Menenhetet II “Meni” (char.), 577–78, 579–81, 752
Men from Nowhere (Malaquais), 100
Meredith, James, 323
Meredith, Scott, 328, 332, 345, 376, 390, 392, 421, 439, 440, 472–73, 477, 478, 504, 523, 552, 562, 588, 599, 607, 691
Abbott’s calls to, 560
and NM’s affair with Mallory, 592–93
NM’s loans from, 439, 544, 588
Merrill, Archibald “Archie” (char.), 360
Merrill, Jenny (char.), 360–61
Merrill, Stephen (char.), 360
Merry Month of May, The (Jones), 440
“Metaphysics of the Belly, The” (Mailer), 300, 580
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 554
Meyers, Lulu (char.), 118, 225, 368, 369, 372
MGM, 122, 157
Miami and the Siege of Chicago (Mailer), 403, 404–9, 411, 426–27, 433
Michael Shay’s, 748, 750, 755
Michaelson, Marty, 748
Michelson, Jeffrey, 525, 546, 547, 549, 550, 607
Mike Douglas Show, The, 435–36
Miller, Arthur, 57, 93–94, 107, 116, 221, 241, 309, 462, 463, 537, 602, 603
Miller, Henry, 32, 128, 201, 217, 374, 433, 435, 442, 447, 486–87, 496–99, 591, 618
NM’s admiration of, 437, 496–97, 498
NM’s meeting with, 313–14
Millett, Kate, 432, 433, 435, 436, 437, 478
Mills, C. Wright, 280, 281
Mills, Hilary, 544
Milton, John, 46, 639
Minamata: Words and Photos (Smith), 511
“Mind of an Outlaw, The” (Mailer), 179, 180, 194, 237, 246, 265
Minetta (char.), 87
Mingus, Charles, 273
Minsk, 666–67, 669–70, 683
Minton, Walter, 181, 214, 225, 243, 245, 332, 345, 360, 365
Miss Baltimore Agency, 216
Mississippi, University of, federal desegregation of, 323
Miss Lonelyhearts (West), 122
Missouri, USS, 78
Mitchell, John, 461
Mitchum, Robert, 173, 178
Mitford, Jessica, 459
Mitgang, Herbert, 501
Moby-Dick (Melville), 90, 424, 434, 483, 579
“Model Airplanes” (Mailer), 22
“Modern American Writer and the Cultural Experience, The” (MLA panel discussion), 362–63
Modern Language Association, 362
Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (Mailer), 730
Monde Invisible, Le (Magritte), 433
Monk, Thelonious, 273
Monroe, Marilyn, 94, 118, 214, 221, 241–42, 435, 467, 498, 536–37, 569, 643, 681, 704
NM’s depiction of, see Marilyn (Mailer)
RFK’s relationship with, 465, 467
suicide of, 299, 464
Montague, Hadley Kittredge Gardiner (char.), 629, 635–36, 643, 647–48
Montague, Hugh Tremont (char.), 629–30, 635, 643–44, 647, 648, 707, 712
Montand, Yves, 467, 623
Montgomery, Paul, 563
Moore, Paul, Jr., 448–49
Morales, Adele (NM’s second wife), 145, 226, 324, 369, 428, 459, 460, 523
disintegrating marriage of, 209–10, 226–27, 261, 262, 265, 266, 281, 282–83
divorce of NM and, 290, 294, 306, 308
drinking by, 188–89, 210, 226–27, 231, 232–33, 263, 292
infidelities of, 263
Jones’s relationship with, 158
“Lipton’s Journal” on, 188
memoir of, 173, 262, 282, 285, 290, 293
as model for Elena Esposito, 146
NM’s infidelities and, 136, 188
NM’s marriage to, 168–69, 171, 172, 176–77, 193–94, 206, 208–10, 217–18, 223
NM’s premarital relationship with, 131, 132–33, 134, 136–37, 139–42, 149, 150–51, 154, 156–59, 161, 162, 165
on NM’s reaction to Barbary Shore reviews, 135, 142
NM’s stabbing of, 261, 264, 283–87, 288, 290, 293, 564, 756
pregnancies of, 210, 211, 216, 217, 246, 255
sexuality of, 140, 165, 232
social skills lacking in, 140–41, 149, 165, 168, 222, 231
Susan and, 162
in three-way sex with NM, 230–31
Morales, Al, 214–15, 216
Morales, Joan, 265, 284
Morales, Mae, 214–15, 227
Moravia, Alberto, 195, 196, 658
Moreno, Rita, 136
Morgan, J. P., 704
Morgan, Ted, 516
Morris, Willie, 390–91, 392–93, 408, 409, 423, 431, 432, 435
Harper’s resignation of, 439–40
Morrison, Theodore, 46–47, 48
Morrison, Toni, 743
Morrow, Lance, 565
Morrow, Stephan, 752
Moschen, Michael, marriage of Mailer, Danielle, and, 628
Motley, Constance Baker, 573
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 716
Mowery, Eldred, 332, 346
Moyers, Bill, 533
“Mr. Mailer Hands Out Cigars” (Mailer), 373
“Mrs. Guinevere,” see Barbary Shore
Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs, 470
Munshin, Collie (char.), 224, 225, 226, 372
Murdoch, Iris, 249
Murdoch, Rupert, 533
Murphy, Modene (char.), 629, 647
Murray, Eunice, 465, 467
Murray, Henry A., 52, 57–58, 116, 167
Music for Chameleons (Capote), 531
Must You Conform? (Lindner), 164, 202
My Hope for America (Johnson), 345, 358
My Lai massacre, 440
“My Mailer Problem” (Greer), 446
My Return (Abbott), 619
“My Three Stooges” (Wolfe), 710
“Myth Versus Hypothesis” (Mailer), 745
Nabokov, Vladimir, 181, 359
Nagasaki, atomic bombing of, 77
Nagel, Thomas, 411
Naiman, Adeline Lubell, 86, 89, 90, 94, 110, 119, 128, 142, 146, 213, 401
NM’s letters to, 324, 332–33
Naked and the Dead, The (film), 173, 178, 194
NM’s reaction to, 240
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Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 1, 8, 41, 63, 65, 69, 73, 78–79, 105, 129, 149, 175, 270, 289, 397, 410, 468, 492, 512, 540, 541–42, 703
as bestseller, 3, 109, 113
British edition of, 119–20
critical reception of, 2–5, 109–10
DeVoto’s critique of, 90, 91, 154
Dos Passos on, 106–7
emerging plan for, 70–71, 74–76, 80–81, 82–83
fiftieth anniversary edition of, 701
film rights of, 159, 173, 176
Hellman’s attempted dramatization of, 2, 107, 108, 117, 120, 126, 169
jacket design for, 103, 104, 110
length of, 83, 120
Malaquais as translator of, 101, 112, 119, 121
Naiman’s championing of, 89, 94
NM on themes of, 88, 89–90, 97
NM’s fears of editorial changes to, 101, 102–4
power as theme in, 93
profanity in, 60, 89, 94, 101, 103
use of “fug” in, 161
wartime letters to Bea as drafts for, 61, 67, 70, 72–73, 75–76, 81, 82, 86
writing of, 86–97
“Naked and the Dead, The” (Mailer; unpublished play), 50, 57
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 250–51, 262, 275, 326, 346, 381, 600
Naropa Institute, 599, 600
NASA, 421, 422, 427, 434
Nastasi, Frank, 631
Nathan, Robert, 36
Nation, 261–62, 685
National Book Award, 347, 351, 379, 394, 397, 410–11, 439, 495, 743
National Book Critics Circle Award, 540
National Book Foundation, 742
National Commission on the Status of Women, 433
National Council of Arts, Sciences and the Professions, 115–16
National Institute of Arts and Letters, 374–75, 601, 653
National Organization for Women, 433, 442
National Review, 109, 317, 350, 357, 378
Nation Books, 740
Native Son (Wright), 208
NBC, Executioner’s Song miniseries produced by, 567–68, 569
Nenning, Günther, 720
Nesbit, Evelyn, 549
New American Library, 157, 376, 392, 408, 421, 455
Newcomb, Pat, 462
Newfield, Jack, 399–400, 410, 414, 417
Newhouse, S. I., 692, 706
New Journalism, 270, 271
New Leader, 468
New Left, 355, 428
NM on, 386–87
Newman, John Henry Cardinal, 178
Newman, Paul, 732
New Republic, 245, 565, 653, 701
New School for Social Research, 112
Newsweek, 350, 378, 411
NM on cover of, 412
New Testament, 695, 696
New World Writing, 149, 161
New York, 417, 499, 536, 649–50, 693, 736, 761
New York, N.Y., Mailer’s 1969 mayoral campaign in, 403, 410, 412–20
New York, State University of, at Albany, 734
New York Daily News, 739
New York Days (Morris), 393, 440
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