Norman Mailer: Works and Days
The life and the writing of Norman Mailer, 1923–2007, year by year: every significant thing he published, in print and in English, and what was written about it.
The successor to the print Works and Days compiled by J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon (2000; revised 2018), continued as a digital edition under the editorship of Jerry Lucas. Curated Work pages carry the substance; a bibliography register aims to be the complete record of Mailer utterances, by and about, 1941–2026; a chronology runs alongside, one page per year. Every Lennon number in the prose is a link.
The decades
- 1920s 7 years the life
- 1930s 10 years the life
- 1940s 27 works 37 entries
- 1950s 72 works 120 entries
- 1960s 277 works 533 entries
- 1970s 199 works 396 entries
- 1980s 74 works 418 entries
- 1990s 37 works 337 entries
- 2000s 131 works 707 entries
Bars are the register's entries by decade, by and about. After 2007 the register goes on: 1,320 entries of reception, scholarship, and posthumous publication, 20 years so far.
This year: 1976
Mailer at the Bicentennial — the year of Some Honorable Men, Genius and Lust, and the Berkley reissue prefaces. Start with the Days page or the 1976 register.
From the Library
Whole books, out of print, published here again by permission, as pages and as EPUBs.
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Mailer Critical Library · No. 1 The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer Barry H. Leeds · 1969Barry H. Leeds's 1969 study, the first book on Mailer: a chapter on each of the five novels, on the poems, on the three miscellanies, and on The Armies of the Night with Miami and the Siege of Chicago, arguing a line of development in narrative voice and in the plight of the individual in American society from The Naked and the Dead to The Armies of the Night.
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Mailer Editions · No. 1 Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon · 2004J. Michael Lennon's edition of 76 Mailer letters, 1963–1969, tracing the conception, serial composition, book publication, and reception of An American Dream.
- Mailer Critical Library · No. 2 Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer Robert J. Begiebing · 1980
Robert J. Begiebing's 1980 study, the first to read Mailer as an allegorist: a chapter on each of Barbary Shore, The Deer Park, An American Dream, and Why Are We in Vietnam?, one on the heroic consciousness that joins the fiction to the nonfiction, one on The Armies of the Night, and a conclusion on the nonfiction of the seventies, the feminist critique, and the promise of the work to come.
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Mailer Critical Library · No. 2 An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer Andrew Gordon · 1980Andrew Gordon's 1980 study, grown from his Berkeley dissertation under Frederick Crews: a psychoanalytic reading of Mailer's fiction from The Naked and the Dead through The Armies of the Night, with a chapter on each novel, on The Man Who Studied Yoga and The Time of Her Time, and on Mailer beside Swift and Carlyle, arguing that sex, anality, violence, and power are the drives his books dream for America.
Browse
- Works A–Z 971 · by form · by decade · curated
- Days 105 years · Timeline
- Bibliography register 3,868 entries, 81 years
- Letters 132 · Full texts 212 of 347 in full
- People 297 · Places 22 · Publishers 74 · Organizations 16 · Concepts 5
- Tags · Search the register exactly and completely; the pages by relevance