Norman mailer cause of death

Michael Lennon collection of Norman Mailer research, To view the finding aid, visit here. The finding aid and blog post were supervised and edited by Suzanna Calev, Wilkes University Archivist. The materials within this collection include manuscript drafts, publications, periodicals, artwork, certificates, and research written and compiled by Norman Mailer, as well as publications and periodicals written about Norman Mailer.

Each series is further divided into subseries and subsubseries to aid researchers in consulting these subjects.

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The collection was donated to Wilkes University by Dr. Mailer made note of this on his application to Harvard University and began his studies at the school in That same year, Mailer was drafted into the U. He wrote to Bea almost daily while serving in the army, his letters and experience building the basis for his acclaimed war novel The Naked and The Dead.

Published in , The Naked and the Dead sold , copies in its first three months, and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 62 weeks. Outside of this collection, the Wilkes University Archives holds over 21 rare editions of The Naked and the Dead preserved in our Norman Mailer Study, including an advance review copy from signed and dated by Larry McMurty, who sent it to Mailer on his 50th birthday on January 31, The materials in this collection not only highlight the success of that novel in reviews, but also showcase the extensive work Mailer put into sustaining his career.

A photograph is featured below. Assembling these boxes in the collection only proved this idea to me. Mailer hand wrote the two pages pictured above in June, Twelve pages in total, this early draft of Castle is far from the opening of the published version.