Satanic Verse, The (Rushdie), Islamic outrage over, 636–37
Saturday Review, 229, 378, 433
Save Me the Waltz (Zelda Fitzgerald), 716
Saving Private Ryan (film), 703
Scarboro Hotel, 9–10, 17, 24, 33, 34, 40, 42
Scarr, Paul (char.), 57
Schaap, Dick, 373
“Schedule Breaker, The” (Mailer), 45
Scherer, Adelaide, 106
Scheuer, James, 419
Schiff, Dorothy, 459
Schiller, Larry, 458, 467, 530, 668, 706, 711, 712, 760
as character in Executioner’s Song, 533–35, 540
Executioner’s Song and, 503–6, 508, 509–12, 528–29, 533
Executioner’s Song miniseries produced and directed by, 567–68, 570
Faith of Graffiti and, 473–74
Hanssen spy case and, 718–19, 721
Marilyn as project of, 458, 462, 464–65
in meeting at NM’s Stockbridge home, 464–65
at 1975 Ali-Frazier fight, 492
NM on, 512
NM’s disagreement on Marilyn with, 465–66, 470
Oswald’s Tale and, 665–71, 677–79
publishing career of, 470, 678
in Russia, 598, 665–71
and Time cover story on Marilyn, 466–67, 469–70
Schiller, Stephanie, 506
Schlesinger, Alexandra, 500, 624
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 32, 147, 268, 269, 270, 276, 459, 500, 601, 624, 650
Schneebaum, Toby, 169, 174, 175
Schneider, Hyman (Chaim) Jehuda, 7, 9, 15, 260
grocery store of, 8–9
as rabbi, 7
Schneider, Ida Kamrass, 7–8
death of, 14
Schneider, Jennie, 7
Schneider, Joe, 15
Schneider, Lena, 8
Schneider, Morris, 8
Schneider, Rebecca, see Shapiro, Rebecca “Beck”
Schneider, Rose, 7, 9
Schneider family:
hotel business of, 9–11, 14, 16, 42, 50
in Long Branch, 8, 16, 22
Schorer, Mark, 38
Schwab, Bunny, 24
Schwartz, Delmore, 147
Schwarz-Bart, André, 446, 576
Schweitzer, Mitchell D., 289
Scorpio Rising (film), 375
Scovil, Jack, 473, 588–90, 592, 593
Scranton, William, 343
Scribner’s, 132, 179
Scully, Vincent, 337
SCUM Manifesto (Solanas), 436–37
Seaver, Edwin, 57, 58, 74
Second Sex (Beauvoir), 130, 433
Sedgwick, Edie, 376
Seiler, Michael, 689
Seize the Day (Bellow), 248
Selby, John, 94, 151
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 720–21, 727–29, 745
Serpentine (Thompson), 529
Set This House on Fire (Styron), 250, 326
Settle, Mary Lee, 609
Sexual Politics (Millett), 432, 433, 436, 437
Sexual Revolution, The (Reich), 175
Sexus (Miller), 496, 497, 591
“Shadow of the Crime, The” (Mailer), 292
Shaffer, Ellen, 279
Shainberg, Larry, 717–18
Shakespeare, William, 579
Shapiro, Louis, 9–10
Shapiro, Nachum Melech, 13
Shapiro, Rebecca “Beck,” 7, 9–10, 34, 50, 216
Sharkovksy, Aleksandr, 665, 668, 669
Shattuck, Roger, 350, 685
Shatz, Leslie, 621
Shaw, George Bernard, 162, 653, 723
Shaw, Irwin, 62, 348
Shaw, Joe, 380
Shawcross, Hartley, 119
Sheed, Wilfrid, 461
Sheehy, Gail, 513
Sheltering Sky, The (Bowles), 137
Short, Bobby, 459
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 115
Shultz, George, 608, 610
Siegel, Lee, 753
“Siege of Chicago, The” (Mailer), 407–9
see also Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Signet Society, 26
NM as member of, 38–39, 42
Silent Spring (Carson), 317
Silverman, Beatrice “Bea” (NM’s first wife), 23, 43, 52, 76, 86, 93–94, 112, 119
breakup and divorce of NM and, 130, 133–34
failing marriage of NM and, 118–19, 125, 126
as feminist, 44, 130
first meeting of NM’s family and, 50, 55
frank speech of, 109–10
marriage of NM and, 1, 85–86, 93–95, 97, 98, 114, 118
marriage of Steve Sánchez and, 146, 151
musical interests of, 44–45, 127
1947–48 European trip of, 1–5, 95, 97, 98–108
NM’s post-breakup letters to, 148, 154, 224
NM’s premarital relationship with, 43–44, 48, 49–50, 54, 55, 56–57, 58
NM’s wartime correspondence with, 59–60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70–71, 72–76, 77–78, 80–81, 82, 83–84, 85, 86
pregnancy of, 118–19, 120
psychiatric career of, 130
religious wedding of NM and, 59
secret wedding of NM and, 58
unpublished novels by, 74, 94, 103, 127
in WAVES, 60, 74
Silverman, Jenny, 49–50, 58, 59
Silverman-Ott, Phyllis, 86, 218
Silvers, Robert, 545, 552, 553, 556, 561–62, 573, 619
Simenon, George, 79
Simon, John, 294, 397, 468
Harlot’s Ghost reviewed by, 649–50
NM’s antipathy toward, 649–50
Simon & Schuster, 646
Simpson, O. J., 678, 712
trial of, 691, 693, 712
Sinatra, Frank, 273, 434, 629
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 260, 361, 602
Singh, Khushwant, 314
Sinkler, Rebecca, 649–50
Sisterhood Is Powerful (anthology), 436
60 Minutes, 464, 465, 466, 467–68
Skellings, Edmund, 347, 352–53
Slovoda, Sam (char.), 145–46, 340
Smack Goddess (Stratton), 628
Smith, Francis X., 419
Smith, June Edith, 496, 497, 498
Smith, Lillian, 79
Smith, Liz, 512, 513, 608, 680
Smith, Perry, 477, 531, 534
Smith, Red, 322
Smith, Tamera, 533
Smith, W. Eugene, 511
Snyder, Richard, 606–7
Sobhraj, Charles, 529
Soho News, 557
Solanas, Valerie, 436–37
Solomon, Barbara Probst, 106, 118, 390, 486, 561–62, 686
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 557
Some Came Running (Jones), 157, 213, 229, 613
Some Honorable Men (Mailer), 487
Song of Myself (Whitman), 182
Sontag, Susan, 147, 260, 356, 364, 442, 513, 602, 603, 609, 637, 653, 695
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 47
Southern, Terry, 348
South Pacific, 51–52
Souvarine, Boris, 113
Soviet Union, 93
show trials in, 112–13
Spanish Civil War, 100
Spark, Muriel, 313
Spender, Stephen, 276–77, 313
Spengler, Oswald, 63–64, 68, 69, 76, 117
Spiegel, Sam, 513
Spinks, Michael, 631
Spinoza, Baruch, 9
Spock, Benjamin, 387
Spooky Art, The: Some Thoughts on Writing (Mailer), 721, 725, 726–27
Stafford, Jean, 249
Stag, 228
Staley, Tom, 737
Stalin, Joseph, 113, 115, 295, 313
Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism (Souvarine), 113
Stanley (char.), 87
Starger, Martin, 620
“Statement of Aims by the Playwright, A” (Mailer), 372–73
Steiger, Rod, 459
Stein,
Gertrude, 611
Stein, Jean, 517, 525, 536
Stein, Monte, 43
Steinbeck, John, 27, 28, 30, 32, 131
Steinberg, Gayfryd, 607
Steinberg, Saul, 607
Steinem, Gloria, 410, 413–14, 449, 459, 462, 594
Stendhal, 102, 119, 395–96, 543
“Steps of the Pentagon, The” (Mailer), 393
see also Armies of the Night, The
Stern, Bert, 464, 615
Stern, Richard G., 237–39, 362, 517
Sterne, Laurence, 360
Stevens, Carol (NM’s fifth wife), 340, 360, 369, 401, 404, 431, 523, 763
Fanny and, 425, 475–76
NM’s breakup with, 490–91, 494, 499
NM’s infidelities and, 471–72, 484
NM’s long-term relationship with, 425, 428, 429–30, 432, 445–46, 451, 453, 454, 456, 459, 470, 471–72, 484, 485, 486
NM’s one-day marriage to, 524
NM’s post-breakup relationship with, 491, 595, 623, 662–63
Norris’s friendship with, 500, 758
pregnancy of, 425, 429, 430, 441
singing career of, 340, 369, 428, 464–65, 475–76, 485–86
Stockbridge fight of NM and, 476
Stevens, George, 121
Stevenson, Adlai, 207, 265
Sting Like a Bee (Torres), 445, 447, 448
Stone, Oliver, 653–54
Stone, Robert, 637
Stop Smiling, 736
Story, 38, 39–40, 42, 48
Story of Civilization, The (Durant), 446
Story Press, 39
Strachey, Lytton, 68
Strange Fruit (Smith), 79
Strasberg, Lee, 226
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, 631
Stratton, Richard, 153, 467, 549, 557, 573, 737
drug smuggling trial of, 571, 572
NM’s letters to, 570–71, 622, 628, 629
NM’s Rolling Stone interview by, 476–77, 605
Strawhead (Mailer; play), 537, 569, 614
Kate as Monroe in, 614–15, 616
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 471
Street Time (TV pilot), 737
Streisand, Barbra, 547
Stuart, Lyle, 189, 197
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 400, 408, 412, 453
Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Ellis), 29
Studs Lonigan (Farrell), 27–28
Styron, Rose, 211, 222, 259, 513, 752
Styron, William, 131, 142, 163, 172, 179, 195, 211, 213, 222, 248, 260, 296, 308, 326, 349, 359, 377, 440, 513, 566, 602, 603, 619, 706
Adele patronized by, 230, 231–32
Aldridge in break with, 259
death of, 752
Jones’s friendship with, 234
NM on duplicity of, 259
NM’s “Evaluations” as viewed by, 250, 258
NM’s feud with, 229, 233, 234, 536
NM’s letters to, 149–50, 155–56, 157, 159, 161, 175
NM’s relationship with, 147–48, 149–50, 213, 222, 223, 566
NM’s threatening letters to, 230–31
suicide, 297–300, 464, 503
Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, Sr. “Punch,” 610, 649
Sunlight Oil Corporation, 19, 47
“Superman Comes to the Supermarket” (Mailer), 261, 270–72, 274–75, 279, 320, 408
Susskind, David, 244, 337, 511, 533
Swados, Harvey, 134
Swenson, May, 294
Sylvia (NM’s cousin), 14
Take Me to the River (Alson), 748
Talese, Gay, 213, 308, 319, 352, 458, 594, 603, 607, 609, 637, 653
Talese, Nan, 675–76
Tales of Hasidim (Buber), 206–7
Talmud, 527–28
Tartikoff, Brandon, 567
Tate, Sharon, 447
Tateyama Naval Airdrome, Honshu, 77, 78, 79
Taylor, Robert, 685
Team of Rivals (Goodwin), 735
technology, NM’s distrust of, 77, 97, 367–68, 398, 422, 427, 436, 444, 551, 576
Tempels, Placide, 479
Ten Commandments, The (film), 502
Tenement Kid, The (Edd), 275
“Ten Thousand Words a Minute” (Mailer), 320, 326, 328
Teppis, Herman (char.), 160, 171, 372
Terkel, Studs, 550
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (film), 96
Tex (char.), 365, 378–79
Texas, University of, Ransom Center of, NM’s papers purchased by, 737–38
That Summer in Paris (Callaghan), 703
Thaw, Harry K., 549
Thin Red Line, The (Jones), 326
This Is My Beloved (Benton, ed.), 68
Thomas, Clara Fargo, 429
Thomas, Sandy Charlebois, 366, 392
Thomases, Martha, 520–21, 538
Thompson, Hunter, 500–501, 573
Thompson, Thomas, 529
Thorndike, Lynn, 576
Thornhill, Arthur H., 504
Thurmond, Strom, 112
Tibo (poodle), 194, 211, 266, 280, 317, 329, 576
Ticket to the Circus, A (Norris Mailer), 124, 485, 494, 500, 507, 564, 626, 723
Tierney, Lawrence, 621
Tiger, Dick, 400
Time, 39, 134, 198, 256, 289, 294, 295, 305, 319, 350, 378, 391, 397, 411, 412, 417, 431, 432, 440, 457, 462, 463, 468, 492, 565, 610
article on NM and March on the Pentagon published in, 391
Marilyn cover of, 466–67, 469–70
Time-Life, NM persistently attacked by, 109
“Time of Her Time, The” (Mailer), 135, 205, 235, 277
cuts in British publication of, 302
and NM’s pre-publication poll of critics, 252–53
“sex as war” metaphor in, 253
Time of Our Time, The (Mailer), 292, 701–6, 721
Timerman, Jacobo, 557
Timmermann, Bonnie, 620, 626
Toback, James, 401–2, 403, 661, 706
Tolstoy, Leo, 71, 79–80, 187–88, 363
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 345
Torn, Rip, 226, 372, 380, 401, 402–3, 429, 448, 458, 624
Torres, José, 347, 348, 375, 380, 401, 413, 453, 521, 525, 546–47, 566
NM’s friendship with, 352, 357, 368, 445
NM’s TV boxing match with, 447–48
NM trading of writing lessons for boxing lessons from, 352, 445, 548
Torres, Ramona, 352, 375, 445, 525
Tory, Rosemary, 372, 374
Tough Guys Don’t Dance (film), 698, 752, 756
Cannes screening of, 623–24
mixed reviews of, 627
New York premiere of, 625, 627
NM as director of, 620–22
NM’s editing of, 622–23
NM’s screenplay for, 614, 618–19, 620
Tough Guys Don’t Dance (Mailer), 63, 330, 539, 584–85, 590–91, 593, 599, 625, 646, 681
as bestseller, 590
first person point of view in, 584, 587
Little, Brown’s unhappiness with, 588
reviews of, 590
risk-taking as theme in, 586
writing of, 587
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, A (TV program), 307
Transit to Narcissus, A (Mailer), 55, 56–58, 59, 60, 61, 70, 74, 85, 86, 517
Trapnell, Garrett, 556
“Trial of the Warlock” (Mailer; screenplay), 501
Trilling, Diana, 63, 64, 147, 223, 228, 252, 441, 442–43, 637
NM’s correspondence with, 254, 350–51, 353–54, 366–67
Trilling, Lionel, 147, 223, 227, 228, 244, 252, 254, 289, 350
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 360
Trocchi, Alex, 313
Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 32, 487, 496
Trotsky, Leon, 100, 598, 631
Trotskyism, 263
Truman, Harry, 99
Trump, Donald, 607
“Truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel” (Mail
er), 310–11, 362
Twentieth Century-Fox, 591
Tyrrell, R. Emmett, 605
Tyson, Mike, 631
Ulysses (Joyce), 29
Underground City, The (Humes), 273
United States: Essays, 1952–1992 (Vidal), 514, 702
United States of America, SS, 208, 210
Untermeyer, Louis, 116
“Until Dead: Thoughts on Capital Punishment” (Mailer), 550–51
Up at the Villa (Maugham), 68–69
Updike, John, 326, 359, 405, 602, 603, 607, 653, 700, 710–11
U.S.A. (Dos Passos), 27, 41, 88, 107, 703–4
Utah Board of Pardons, 544–45, 556
NM’s letters to, 552, 565–66
Valsen, Red (char.), 75, 81, 84, 86, 87
Vanity Fair, 615, 692
NM as Writer-in-Residence at, 646, 653
Tough Guys Don’t Dance excerpts in, 646
Venice, 404, 430, 431
Venice Film Festival, 404
“Vertical City” (Mailer, Mowery, and Brown), 332, 346
Vidal, Gore, 107, 137, 161, 195, 252, 269, 283, 336, 431, 432, 512, 575, 653, 702, 728
Advertisements reviewed by, 261–62
in Don Juan in Hell, 723–24
on Jeanne Campbell, 295
NM compared to Charles Manson by, 447, 514
NM’s Dick Cavett Show debate with, 449–51
NM’s fight with, 513–14
NM’s relationship with, 161–62, 289, 432, 447, 451, 594, 602, 723
Patriarchal Attitudes review of, 447
in PEN fundraising series, 602, 603, 607
“Vietnam Days” (Berkeley teach-in), 355–56
Vietnam War, 345, 353, 371, 405, 440, 477, 569, 629
Cambodia and Laos bombings in, 455
NM’s speeches and writings on, 355–56, 363, 364, 374, 378, 398, 399, 408, 425
protests against, 355–56, 363–64, 374, 381, 387, 428
Village Gate, 417
Villager, The, 200, 204
Village Voice, 112, 173, 225, 243, 294, 307, 345, 350, 358, 372, 378, 399, 413, 417, 441, 459–60, 461–62, 591
NM’s columns in, 200–202, 203–5, 212, 228, 333
NM’s Deer Park ad in, 198
NM’s Godot essay in, 206
NM’s part ownership of, 194–95, 199, 204, 256, 404, 452, 487, 523
Villechaize, Hervé, 401
violence, 303, 564
as theme in “The White Negro,” 219, 221, 227, 242, 564
Vitale, Alberto, 691
Vogelgesang, Sandy, 387
Vogue, 350, 692
Vonnegut, Kurt, 458, 500, 539, 602, 603, 609, 706
Wagner, Robert, 415, 418–19
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 206, 207–8
Wakefield, Dan, 198–99, 214
Waldorf Conference, NM at, 115–16, 650–51
Walker, Alice, 603
Walker, Bill, 266, 376, 417
Walker, Edwin, 673
Walk in the Sun, A (Brown), 71, 103
Wallace, George C., 409, 456
Wallace, Henry, 101, 108, 110–11, 112, 113, 116
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