This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books 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. Mailer's output included fiction, non-fiction, poems and essays. Biographer J. Michael Lennon called Mailer the chronicler of the American Century, and a talent whose career has "been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, improvisational, public, productive, lengthy and misunderstood". __TOC__

Chronology Title Abbr. Year Type Notes The Naked and the Dead NAD 1948 novel spent 62 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 1; received the Newspaper Guild of New York's "Page One Award"; chosen as one of the four best books of 1948 by Newsweek; original manuscript housed at Yale University Barbary Shore BS 1951 novel spent 3 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 3 The Deer Park DP 1955 novel spent 15 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6 The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster WN 1959 essay first published in Dissent 4, Summer 1957 Advertisements for Myself AFM 1959 miscellany original working title: The Hip and the Square: a Miscellany Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) DFL 1962 poetry The Presidential Papers PP 1963 miscellany An American Dream AAD 1965 novel spent 6 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 8 Cannibals and Christians CAC 1966 miscellany The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer SFNM 1967 short story collection nineteen stories — one new ("The Shortest Novel of Them All") and eighteen previously published with an original introduction; published with material from Existential Errands under the title The Essential Mailer, Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982 The Deer Park: A Play 1967 play Why Are We in Vietnam? WWVN 1967 novel nominated for the National Book Award The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer 1967 essay The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History AON 1968 nonfiction narrative won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for arts and letters; ranked nineteenth on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations 1968 miscellany selections from PP and CAC, including the new "On Lady Chatterley and Tropic of Cancer" Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 MSC 1968 nonfiction narrative nominated for the National Book Award in history and biography Of a Fire on the Moon OFM 1971 nonfiction narrative nominated for the National Book Award in the sciences category King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century 1971 nonfiction narrative Prisoner of Sex POS 1971 essay nominated for the National Book Award in the arts and letters category Maidstone: A Mystery MM 1971 screenplay based on the 1968 film that was mostly improvised The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer 1971 collection edited and introduced by Robert F. Lucid Existential Errands EE 1972 miscellany St. George and the Godfather SGG 1972 nonfiction narrative Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers MAR 1973 biography spent 9 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6 The Faith of Graffiti FOG 1974 essay The Fight FIG 1975 nonfiction narrative Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 SHM 1976 anthology includes a new preface and four previously published political narratives: "Superman Comes to the Supermarket", "In the Red Light", MSC, and SSG Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller GAL 1976 essay A Transit to Narcissus TTN 1978 novel facsimile of typescript of previously unpublished novel written in 1943 The Executioner's Song ES 1979 nonfiction narrative spent 25 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 3; won the Playboy Writing Award for fiction in 1979 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1980; nominated for the American Book Award for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1979; ranked 72 on a list of the top 100 works of journalism of the twentieth century; Mailer insisted on calling ES a "true-life novel" Of Women and Their Elegance OWE 1980 novel photographs by Milton Greene The Essential Mailer EM 1982 collection combines SFNM and EE in a British release Pieces and Pontifications PAP 1982 miscellany Pontifications edited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon Ancient Evenings AE 1983 novel spent 17 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6 Tough Guys Don't Dance TGD 1984 novel spent 10 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 5 Conversations with Norman Mailer CNM 1988 collection edited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon; contains 34 previously published interviews, including three self-interviews, an introduction, and chronology of Mailer's life Harlot's Ghost HG 1991 novel spent 4 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 12 Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery OT 1995 nonfiction narrative Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography POP 1995 biography The Gospel According to the Son GAS 1997 novel spent 6 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 7 The Time of Our Time TOOT 1998 anthology contains 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; Mailer signed 25,000 copies The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing SA 2003 miscellany edited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon; contains previously published and original material Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings MG 2003 poetry old (some revised) and new poems; reprint of DFL and poems from CAC Why Are We at War? WWW 2003 essay assembled from two interviews and a speech, September 2002 to February 2003, against the Iraq war Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969 LAD 2004 letters 76 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 America BE 2006 conversations with John Buffalo Mailer The Castle in the Forest CIF 2007 novel spent 3 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 5 On God: An Uncommon Conversation OG 2007 conversations with J. Michael Lennon; edited transcripts of ten conversations between Lennon and Mailer, 2003–2006 Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer MO 2013 collection 49 important essays, 1948–2006, including "Freud" an unpublished essay from the mid-1950s; edited by Phillip Sipiora The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer SLNM 2014 letters 714 letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximately 50,000 Mailer wrote over his lifetime, edited by J. Michael Lennon Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s 2018 collection Library of America #305 contains AAD, WVN, AON, and MSC; edited by J. Michael Lennon Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s 2018 collection Library of America #306; edited by J. Michael Lennon Lipton's: A Marijuana Journal 2024 journal A journal written in the winter of 1954–1955, containing an introduction, annotations, an index, and correspondence between Mailer and Robert Lindner; edited by J. Michael Lennon, Gerald R. Lucas, and Susan Mailer

Novels Title Year Publication Information The Naked and the Dead 1948 New York: Rinehart, 6 May; London: Wingate, 9 May 1949. Barbary Shore 1951 New York: Rinehart, 24 May; London: Cape, 21 January 1952. The Deer Park 1955 New York: Putnam's, 14 October; London: Wingate, 1957. An American Dream 1965 New York: Dial, 15 March. London: Deutsch, 26 April. Why Are We in Vietnam? 1967 New York: Putnam's, 15 September; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, March or April 1969. A Transit to Narcissus 1978 New York: Howard Fertig, 29 March. Of Women and Their Elegance 1980 New York: Simon and Schuster, 26 November; London: Hodder and Stoughton. Ancient Evenings 1983 Boston: Little, Brown, 4 April; London: Macmillan, 26 May. Tough Guys Don't Dance 1984 New York: Random House, 20 August; London: Michael Joseph, 15 October. Harlot's Ghost 1991 New York: Random House, 2 October. London: Michael Joseph, October. The Gospel According to the Son 1997 New York: Random House, 2 May; London: Little, Brown, 18 September. The Castle in the Forest 2007 New York: Random House, 23 January.

Non-fiction Title Year Publication Information The White Negro 1959 San Francisco: City Lights Books. The Armies of the Night 1968 New York: New American Library. Miami and the Siege of Chicago 1968 New York: New American Library. Of a Fire on the Moon 1971 Boston: Little, Brown. King of the Hill 1971 New York: New American Library. Prisoner of Sex 1971 Boston: Little, Brown. St. George and the Godfather 1972 New York: New American Library. The Faith of Graffiti 1974 New York: Praeger. The Fight 1975 Boston: Little, Brown. Genius and Lust 1976 New York: Grove. The Executioner's Song 1979 Boston: Little, Brown. Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery 1995 New York: Random House. Why Are We at War? 2003 New York: Random House. Lipton's: A Marijuana Journal 2024 New York: Arcade.

Anthologies, collections and miscellanies 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. 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. Title Year Publication Information Advertisements for Myself 1959 New York: Putnam, 1959. The Presidential Papers 1963 New York: Putnam, 1963. Cannibals and Christians 1966 New York: Dial, 1966. The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer 1967 New York: Dell, 1967. The Idol and the Octopus 1968 New York: Dell, 1968. The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer 1971 New York: World, 1971. Existential Errands 1972 Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 1976 Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. The Essential Mailer 1982 Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982. Pieces and Pontifications 1982 Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. The Time of Our Time 1998 New York: Random House, 1998. The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing 2003 New York: Random House, 2003. Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer 2013 New York: Random House: 2013. Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s 2018 New York: Library of America, 2018. Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s 2018 New York: Library of America, 2018.

Conversations and interviews By 1986, Mailer had been interviewed approximately 200 times, perhaps more than any other American author on a wide range of topics. He may maintain that distinction today. Title Year Publication Information Notes Pieces and Pontifications 1982 Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. contains 20 interviews Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988 Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. The Big Empty 2006 New York: Nation Books. With John Buffalo Mailer. On God: An Uncommon Conversation 2007 New York: Random House. With J. Michael Lennon.

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