Selected letters of Norman Mailer

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Label

Selected letters of Norman Mailer

Statement of responsibility

edited by J. Michael Lennon

Creator

• Mailer, Norman

Contributor

• Lennon, Michael

Editor

• Lennon, Michael

Subject

• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
• Mailer, Norman -- Correspondence

Genre

• Correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

"Mailer wrote almost 50,000 letters over the course of his life, keeping a copy of almost every one of them. He corresponded with presidents and politicians, artists and athletes, writers and editors, students, antagonists, fans, friends, his children, his loves, including his beloved sixth wife, Norris Church Mailer. Here are the letters of a precocious sixteen-year-old arriving from Brooklyn at Harvard. Here are the letters depicting the horrors of the war in the Pacific from a soldier's point of view. Here are the letters describing a young writer's struggle with his first novel, a manuscript that would become The Naked and the Dead. And here are the many, many letters of a man who spent sixty years in the spotlight. Read together, they form an autobiographical portrait of Norman Mailer"--

Member of

• Correspondence., Selections

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography