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Norman Mailer bibliography

This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books[a] by and about Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), an American novelist, new journalist, essayist, public intellectual, filmmaker, and biographer. Over a fifty-nine-year period, Mailer won two Pulitzer Prizes and had eleven books spend a total of 160 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.[1] Mailer's output included fiction, non-fiction, poems and essays. Biographer J. Michael Lennon called Mailer the chronicler of the American Century,[2] and a talent whose career has "been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, improvisational, public, productive, lengthy and misunderstood".[3]

Norman Mailer
bibliography
Mailer in 1948
Books↙52
Novels↙12
Stories↙25
Collections↙15
Interviews↙3
Nonfiction Narratives↙13
References and footnotes

Chronology edit

TitleAbbr.[b]YearTypeNotes
The Naked and the DeadNAD1948novelspent 62 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 1;[4] received a New York Newspaper Guild's "Page One Award"; chosen as one of the four best books of 1948 by Newsweek;[5] original manuscript housed at Yale University[6]
Barbary ShoreBS1951novelspent 3 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 3[4]
The Deer ParkDP1955novelspent 15 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6[4]
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the HipsterWN1959[c]essayfirst published in Dissent 4, Summer 1957[7]
Advertisements for MyselfAFM1959miscellanyoriginal working title: The Hip and the Square: a Miscellany[8]
Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)DFL1962poetry
The Presidential PapersPP1963miscellany
An American DreamAAD1965novelspent 6 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 8[4]
Cannibals and ChristiansCAC1966miscellany
The Short Fiction of Norman MailerSFNM[d]1967short story collectionnineteen stories — one new ("The Shortest Novel of Them All") and eighteen previously published with an original introduction;[9] published with material from Existential Errands under the title The Essential Mailer, Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982
The Deer Park: A Play1967play
Why Are We in Vietnam?WWVN[e]1967novelnominated for the National Book Award[10]
The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer1967essay
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as HistoryAON1968nonfiction narrativewon the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters;[11] ranked nineteenth on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century[12]
The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations1968miscellanyselections from PP and CAC, including the new "On Lady Chatterley and Tropic of Cancer"[13]
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968MSC1968nonfiction narrativenominated for the National Book Award in history and biography[14]
Of a Fire on the MoonOFM1971nonfiction narrativenominated for the National Book Award in the sciences category[15]
King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century1971nonfiction narrative
Prisoner of SexPOS1971essaynominated for the National Book Award in the arts and letters category[16]
Maidstone: A MysteryMM1971screenplaybased on the 1968 film that was mostly improvised[17][18]
The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer1971collectionedited and introduced by Robert F. Lucid[19]
Existential ErrandsEE1972miscellany
St. George and the GodfatherSGG1972nonfiction narrative
Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost PhotographersMAR1973biographyspent 9 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6[4]
The Faith of GraffitiFOG1974essay
The FightFIG1975nonfiction narrative
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972SHM1976anthologyincludes a new preface and four previously published political narratives: "Superman Comes to the Supermarket", "In the Red Light", MSC, and SSG[20]
Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry MillerGAL1976essay
A Transit to NarcissusTTN1978novelfacsimile of typescript of previously unpublished novel written in 1943[21]
The Executioner's SongES1979nonfiction narrativespent 25 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 3;[4] won the Playboy Writing Award for fiction in 1979 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1980;[22] nominated for the American Book Award for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1979;[23] ranked 72 on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century;[12] Mailer insisted on calling ES a "true-life novel"[24]
Of Women and Their EleganceOWE1980novelphotographs by Milton Greene[25]
The Essential MailerEM1982collectioncombines SFNM and EE in a British release[26]
Pieces and PontificationsPAP1982miscellanyPontifications edited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon[27]
Ancient EveningsAE1983novelspent 17 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6[4]
Tough Guys Don't DanceTGD1984novelspent 10 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 5[4]
Conversations with Norman MailerCNM1988collectionedited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon; contains 34 previously published interviews, including three self-interviews, an introduction, and chronology of Mailer's life[28]
Harlot's GhostHG1991novelspent 4 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 12[4]
Oswald's Tale: An American MysteryOT1995nonfiction narrative
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive BiographyPOP1995biography
The Gospel According to the SonGAS1997novelspent 6 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 7[4]
The Time of Our TimeTOOT[f]1998anthologycontains 139 excerpts from 26 of Mailer's books and uncollected periodical pieces; includes "The Shadow of the Crime: A Word from the Author", a one-page reflection on the 1960 stabbing of his second wife Adele;[29] Mailer signed 25,000 copies[29]
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on WritingSA2003miscellanyedited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon; contains previously published and original material[30]
Modest Gifts: Poems and DrawingsMG2003poetryold (some revised) and new poems; reprint of DFL and poems from CAC[31]
Why Are We at War?WWW2003essayassembled from two interviews and a speech, September 2002 to February 2003, against the Iraq war[32]
Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969LAD2004letters76 letters about the writing and publication of AAD, edited by J. Michael Lennon
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in AmericaBE2006conversationswith John Buffalo Mailer
The Castle in the ForestCIF2007novelspent 3 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 5[4]
On God: An Uncommon ConversationOG2007conversationswith J. Michael Lennon; edited transcripts of ten conversations between Lennon and Mailer, 2003–2006[33]
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman MailerMO2013collection49 important essays, 1948–2006, including "Freud" an unpublished essay from the mid-1950s;[34] edited by Phillip Sipiora
The Selected Letters of Norman MailerSLNM2014letters714 letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximately 50,000 Mailer wrote over his lifetime,[35] edited by J. Michael Lennon
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s2018collectionLibrary of America #305 contains AAD, WVN, AON, and MSC; edited by J. Michael Lennon
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s2018collectionLibrary of America #306; edited by J. Michael Lennon

Novels edit

TitleYearPublication Information
The Naked and the Dead1948New York: Rinehart, 6 May; London: Wingate, 9 May 1949.
Barbary Shore1951New York: Rinehart, 24 May; London: Cape, 21 January 1952.
The Deer Park1955New York: Putnam's, 14 October; London: Wingate, 1957.
An American Dream1965New York: Dial, 15 March. London: Deutsch, 26 April.
Why Are We in Vietnam?1967New York: Putnam's, 15 September; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, March or April 1969.
A Transit to Narcissus1978New York: Howard Fertig, 29 March.
Of Women and Their Elegance1980New York: Simon and Schuster, 26 November; London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Ancient Evenings1983Boston: Little, Brown, 4 April; London: Macmillan, 26 May.
Tough Guys Don't Dance1984New York: Random House, 20 August; London: Michael Joseph, 15 October.
Harlot's Ghost1991New York: Random House, 2 October. London: Michael Joseph, October.
The Gospel According to the Son1997New York: Random House, 2 May; London: Little, Brown, 18 September.
The Castle in the Forest2007New York: Random House, 23 January.

Non-fiction edit

TitleYearPublication Information
The White Negro1959San Francisco: City Lights Books.
The Armies of the Night1968New York: New American Library.
Miami and the Siege of Chicago1968New York: New American Library.
Of a Fire on the Moon1971Boston: Little, Brown.
King of the Hill1971New York: New American Library.
Prisoner of Sex1971Boston: Little, Brown.
St. George and the Godfather1972New York: New American Library.
The Faith of Graffiti1974New York: Praeger.
The Fight1975Boston: Little, Brown.
Genius and Lust1976New York: Grove.
The Executioner's Song1979Boston: Little, Brown.
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery1995New York: Random House.
Why Are We at War?2003New York: Random House.

Anthologies, collections and miscellanies edit

Beginning in 1959, it became a habit of Mailer's to release his periodical writing, excerpts, and the occasional new piece in collections and miscellanies every few years.[36] Not including letters, Mailer had written for over 100 magazines and periodicals, including Dissent, Ladies Home Journal, One: The Homosexual Magazine, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Harper's, New Yorker, and others.[37]

TitleYearPublication Information
Advertisements for Myself1959New York: Putnam, 1959.
The Presidential Papers1963New York: Putnam, 1963.
Cannibals and Christians1966New York: Dial, 1966.
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer1967New York: Dell, 1967.
The Idol and the Octopus1968New York: Dell, 1968.
The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer1971New York: World, 1971.
Existential Errands1972Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-19721976Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
The Essential Mailer1982Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982.
Pieces and Pontifications1982Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.
The Time of Our Time1998New York: Random House, 1998.
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing2003New York: Random House, 2003.
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer2013New York: Random House: 2013.
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s2018New York: Library of America, 2018.
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s2018New York: Library of America, 2018.

Conversations and interviews edit

By 1986, Mailer had been interviewed approximately 200 times, perhaps more than any other American author on a wide range of topics.[38] He may maintain that distinction today.[37]

TitleYearPublication InformationNotes
Pieces and Pontifications1982Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.contains 20 interviews
Conversations with Norman Mailer1988Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.Edited by J. Michael Lennon.
The Big Empty2006New York: Nation Books.With John Buffalo Mailer.
On God: An Uncommon Conversation2007New York: Random House.With J. Michael Lennon.

Short stories edit

Main article: The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
TitleWritten[g]PublishedOriginal PublicationCollected InNotes
"The Greatest Thing in the World"19401941Harvard AdvocateStory 19 (1941); Hold Your Breath: Suspense Stories (1947); Story: The Fiction of the Forties (1949);[h] AFM (1959); SFNM (1967)[39]written during Mailer's sophomore year at Harvard;[40] won Story magazine's eighth annual college writing contest[41]
"Right Shoe on Left Foot"1941[42]1942Harvard Advocate-never reprinted[43]
"Maybe Next Year"1941[42]1942Harvard AdvocateThe Harvard Advocate Anthology (1942); AFM (1959); SFNM (1967)[44]written in Mailer's junior year at Harvard[45]
"A Calculus at Heaven"1942 (Oct.)1944Cross-Section: A Collection of New American WritingAFM (1959); SFNM (1967); EM (1982)[46]written for Robert Hillyer's English A-5 class in Mailer's senior year at Harvard[46]
"The Paper House"1951–1952 (Winter)[47]1952New World Writing: Second Mentor CollectionLilliput's Extra Holiday Reading (London 1953); AFM (1959); SFNM (1967); A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1968); EM (1982); Stag (1975)[48]
"The Dead Gook"1951–1952 (Winter)[47]1952Discovery, No. 1AFM (1959); SFNM (1967); A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1968); EM (1982)[48]
"The Language of Men"1951–1952 (Winter)[47]1953EsquireVarious Temptations (1955); The Armchair Esquire (1958); AFM (1959); SFNM (1967); A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1968); EM (1982)[49]
"Pierrot"19511953World ReviewAFM (1959); SFNM (1967)published as "The Patron Saint of MacDougal Alley" in AFM and SFNM with changes[49]
"The Notebook"1951–1952 (Winter)[47]1953Cornhill Magazine no. 996The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, No. 3 (1956); AFM (1959); SFNM (1967); EM (1982)[49]reprinted in The Mailer Review 12.1 (2018)[50]
"The Man Who Studied Yoga"1951–1952 (Winter)[51]1956New Short Novels 2AFM (1959); SFNM (1967); EM (1982); TOOT (1998)[52]
"Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out"1958[53]1958Partisan Review 25AFM (1959); SFNM (1967); EM (1982)[54]
"The Time of Her Time"1958[55]1959AFMSFNM (1967); EM (1982); Writer’s Choice: Each of Twenty American Authors Introduces His Own Best Story (1974); TOOT (1998)[54]
"It"19391959AFMSFNM (1967)
"Great in the Hay"19501959AFMSFNM (1967)
"Truth and Being: Nothing and Time"1960 (Dec.)[56]1964Evergreen Review no. 26PP (1963); SFNM (1967); Evergreen Review Reader: A Ten Year Anthology, 1962–1967, Vol. II (1980); EM (1982)[57]
"The Locust Cry"19631963CommentaryPP (1963); CAC (1966); SFNM (1967); EM (1982)[58]
"The Last Night: a Story"19621963EsquireCAC (1966); SFNM (1967); EM (1982); The Last Night (1984)[58]reprinted in The Mailer Review 13.1 (2019) with an introduction by J. Michael Lennon[59]
"The Killer: a Story"1960[60]1964Evergreen Review no. 32CAC (1966); SFNM (1967); EM (1982)[61]
"Ministers of Taste: A Story"19651965Partisan Review no. 32CAC (1966); SFNM (1967); EM (1982)[62]
"The Shortest Novel of Them All"19631967SFNM-the only story in SFNM that was not previously published
"The Blood of the Blunt"19512012The Mailer Review-previously unpublished short story, circa 1951[63]
"Love Buds"1942–432013The Mailer Review-previously unpublished short story written in Mailer's senior year in college, 1942–43[64]
"La Petite Bourgeoise"19512014The Mailer Review-previously unpublished short story, circa 1951[64]
"The Thalian Adventure"19512015The Mailer Review-previously unpublished short story, circa 1951[65]
"The Collision"19332016The Mailer Review-Mailer's first complete story, previously unpublished, written January 1933[66]
"Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste"19512017The Mailer Review-previously unpublished short story, circa 1951[67]

Critical studies of Mailer's work edit

  • Leeds, Barry H. (1969). The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: NYU Press. OCLC 474531468.
  • Kaufmann, Donald (1969). Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780809303878. OCLC 977535620.
  • Lucid, Robert F., ed. (1971). Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work. Boston: Little Brown. OCLC 902036360.
  • Braudy, Leo, ed. (1972). Norman Mailer: a Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780135455333. OCLC 868765103.
  • Poirier, Richard (1972). Norman Mailer. Modern Masters. New York: Viking Press. OCLC 473033417.
  • Solotaroff, Robert (1973). Down Mailer's Way. Urbana; London: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252003981. OCLC 644343516.
  • Adams, Laura, ed. (1974a). Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Port Washington; London: Kennikat Press. ISBN 9780804690669. OCLC 1050855202.
  • Adams (1974).
  • Radford, Jean (1975). Norman Mailer: A Critical Study. London; Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. OCLC 463529477.
  • Adams, Laura (1977). Existential Battles: the Growth of Norman Mailer. Athens: Ohio UP. OCLC 787841439.
  • Bufithis, Philip (1978). Norman Mailer. New York: Frederick Ungar. OCLC 932270728.
  • Merrill, Robert (1978). Norman Mailer. New York: Twayne. OCLC 463500243.
  • Gordon, Andrew (1980). An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer. London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. OCLC 1046256795.
  • Begiebing, Robert J. (1980). Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer. Columbia; London: University of Missouri Press. OCLC 466533555.
  • Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: Empire Books. OCLC 966034621.
  • Manso, Peter (1985). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Washington Square Press. ISBN 9781416562863. OCLC 1035697738.
  • Lennon (1986).
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. (1986). Norman Mailer. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House. ISBN 9780877546566. OCLC 12420979.
  • Lennon (1988).
  • Begiebing, Robert J. (1989). Toward a New Synthesis: John Fowles, John Gardner, and Norman Mailer. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI. ISBN 9780835719476. OCLC 924803474.
  • Nigel, Leigh (1989). Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan. OCLC 68171016.
  • Rollyson (1991).
  • Merrill, Robert (1992). Norman Mailer Revisited. Boston: Twayne. OCLC 463568236.
  • Glenday, Michael K. (1995). Norman Mailer. New York: St. Martins Press. OCLC 878025365.
  • Dearborn (1999).
  • Dickstein, Morris (2002). Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard UP. OCLC 606732230.
  • Leeds, Barry H. (2002). The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer. Bainbridge Island, Wash.: Pleasure Boat Studio. OCLC 845519995.
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. (2003). Norman Mailer. Bloom's Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House. OCLC 263706819.
  • Lennon (2013).
  • Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (2014). The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. New York: Random House. OCLC 933749753.
  • Wenke, Joseph (2014) [1987]. Mailer's America. Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England for University of Connecticut. ISBN 978-0874513936.
  • Bailey, Jennifer (2014) [1979]. Norman Mailer Quick-Change Artist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. OCLC 935186576.
  • Schultz, Kevin (2016). Buckley and Mailer: the Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties. New York: W.W. Norton. OCLC 921868954.
  • Bozung, Justin, ed. (2017). The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. OCLC 1011515088.
  • McKinley, Maggie (2017). Understanding Norman Mailer. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press. OCLC 985080064.
  • Lennon & Lennon (2018).
  • McKinley, Maggie, ed. (2021). Norman Mailer in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108774413.
  • Begiebing, Robert J. (2023). Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations. Baton Rogue, LA: Louisiana State University Press.

References edit

Notes

  1. ^ Including short stories. This bibliography might be expanded in the future to include important uncollected works.
  2. ^ Most from Lennon (2008a, pp. 518–519).
  3. ^ This date is often listed as 1957 or 1958 (e.g. Adams (1974, p. 1) and Lennon (1986, p. 219) list 1957), but as Lennon & Lennon (2018, p. 29) explain, the City Lights publication is followed by the 1958 "Reflections on Hipsterism", so earlier than 1959 is unlikely.
  4. ^ Abbreviated SF in Adams (1974, p. 4, passim).
  5. ^ According to Lennon (2008a), sometimes abbreviated as WVN.
  6. ^ According to Lennon (2008a), sometimes abbreviated as TOT.
  7. ^ Most dates come from SFNM. Those that do not are otherwise noted.
  8. ^ Edited by Alfred Hitchcock.

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