Andrew Gordon
Literary scholar at the University of Florida; author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (1980), the first book-length psychoanalytic reading of Mailer.
Andrew Gordon (born 1945, Miami) wrote An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980), the first book-length psychoanalytic reading of Mailer’s fiction, grown from his Berkeley dissertation under Frederick Crews. He took his undergraduate degree at Rutgers and his Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Berkeley, was a Fulbright lecturer in American literature at the universities of Valencia, Barcelona, and Oporto, and taught American literature and film at the University of Florida from 1975.
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