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Wallace, Mike, 217–18, 286, 287, 512
Marilyn interview of, 464, 466, 467–68
Wall Street Journal, 417
Walters, Barbara, 513–14
“Wandering in Prose, A: For Hemingway” (Mailer), 209, 285, 294
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 71, 79–80, 363
Ward, Bill, 266, 279
War Diary (Malaquais), 113
Warhol, Andy, 375–76, 400, 403, 436, 459, 681
Warnecke, John, 513
Warner, Jack, 645–46
Warner Books, 504, 582
Warner Brothers, 339, 342
Warren, Earl, 654
Warren Commission, 654, 679
Warren Commission Report, 370, 377, 668, 673, 677–78
Washington Post, 370, 460, 461, 505, 513
Wasserman, Al, 356, 459, 525, 570, 732
Wasserman, Barbara Mailer, see Mailer, Barbara Jane
Watergate scandal, 454, 460, 499, 501, 599, 635, 643, 650
Senate investigation of, 461
Watson, Graham, 151
Waugh, Evelyn, 102, 283, 303, 304–5
WAVES, 60, 74
Way Out, 228
Weatherby, W. J., 241
Webster, William, 719
Weidenfeld, George, 512
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 411
Weinberg, Richard, 26
Weiss, Larry, 29, 35–36, 43, 117
Welles, Orson, 435–36
Welt, Jan, 379, 401, 403, 407
Welty, Eudora, 603
Wendling, John, 757, 758–59
Wenke, Joseph, 219–20
Wenner, Jann, 739
West, Anthony, 134
West, James L. W., III, 222
West, Nathanael, 122
West, Rebecca, 313
Weymouth, Lally, 512–14, 602
W. H. Allen, 466
Wharton, William, 529
When We Were Kings (film), 699
NM’s commentary in, 699
Whistle (Jones), 517
White, Stanford, 549, 550
White, Theodore H., 25, 270, 419–20
“White Man Unburdened, The” (Mailer), 729
“White Negro, The” (Mailer), 77, 203, 205–6, 208, 210, 216, 219–21, 223, 225, 238, 239, 243, 279, 324, 364, 426, 427, 476, 693
“Lipton’s Journal” as source of, 189–90
violence as theme in, 219, 221, 227, 242, 564
Whitman, Walt, 182, 309, 373, 727
Who Walks in Darkness (Brossard), 216
Why Are We at War? (Mailer), 721, 728
“Why Are We in New York?” (Mailer), 417
Why Are We in Vietnam? (Mailer), 63, 353, 374, 376, 382, 448
reviews of, 378–79
scatological humor in, 378
writing of, 365–66, 370
Wild 90 (film), 375–76, 381, 383, 398, 399
Wilderness of Mirrors (Martin), 648
Wild One, The (film), 178
William Morris Agency, 58
Williams, John Taylor “Ike,” 528
Williams, Tennessee, 107, 161, 448–49, 601
Willingham, Calder, 136, 163, 597
Willwerth, James, 712
Wilson (char.), 75, 86, 87–88
Wilson, Edmund, 137
Wilson, Erin Cressida, 657
Wilson, Graham, 254–55, 657–58
Wilson, Lois Mayfield, 134, 136, 254–55, 456, 486
NM’s affair with, 118, 119, 171, 172, 255, 595, 623, 657–59, 663
NM’s last dinner with, 753–54
NM’s letters to, 255–56, 708
Windchill Summer (Norris Mailer), 708–11, 730
Windholz, Veronica, 645, 703
Wingate, Allan, 119
Winters, Shelley, 111, 118, 120–21, 125, 280–81
Withington, Lothrop, Jr., 31
Wizen, Joe, 591, 592
Wolcott, James, 582
Wolf, Dan, 112, 130–31, 134, 136, 142, 144, 145, 149, 150, 158, 162, 163, 169, 173, 186, 188, 195, 213, 525
NM on, 199–200
as Village Voice editor, 194–95, 199, 204, 205
Wolf, Rhoda Lazare, 20, 23, 86, 144, 169, 195
Wolfe, Thomas, 27, 35, 40, 75, 130, 131, 309, 644
Wolfe, Tom, 350, 529, 602, 707, 741
NM, Updike and Irving attacked by, 710–11, 715
Wollheim, Richard, 303
Women’s Liberation Movement, 431, 432–33, 434, 435–36, 444–45, 453, 456
Town Hall debate on, 441–43, 444–45
Women’s Wear Daily, 417, 432
Wood, Anne, 748
Wood, James, 701
Woodstock Generation, 454
Woodward, Bob, 461, 462
Woolf, Douglas, 26, 48–49
World According to Garp, The (Irving), 710, 715
World War I, 10, 31, 703–4
World War II, 31–32, 62, 64–65, 629, 630, 631, 635, 703
in South Pacific, 51–52
U.S. entry into, 43
see also Mailer, Norman, army service of
World Without Visa (Malaquais), 113
Wouk, Herman, 162–63, 169
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 116
Wright, Richard, 57, 208
Writers Guild, 568–69
Writer’s Life, A (Talese), 213
Wylie, Andrew, 680, 691–92
Wynn, Tracy Keenan, 567–69
Yamanishi, Eiichi, 172, 239, 244, 356, 364
NM’s letters to, 263, 310, 335, 355, 362, 367, 392, 446, 453, 454, 499
Yanow, Morton, NM’s letters to, 520, 521, 526, 712–13
Yeats, William Butler, 247
Yippies (Youth International Party), 382, 408
Young Hitler I Knew, The (Kubizek), 712
Young Lions, The (Shaw), 62
Zack, Naomi, 563, 566, 722
Abbott’s relationship with, 619–20
Zairois, 479–80
Zapata, Emiliano, 264
Zelda, Scott, & Ernest (Plimpton and Quinn), 715–17, 718, 725
Zolotow, Maurice, 462, 463, 466
Zsa Zsa (poodle), 194, 211, 266, 317, 329
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