Norman Mailer, RIP
I was pretty much through with Norman Mailer by the end of my 20s. But The Naked and the Dead helped inspire me to write, and Armies of the Night helped inspire me to take up journalism.
Given that he stabbed one of his six wives, ran for mayor of New York, fought Gore Vidal and William Buckley and knew everyone, I'm waiting for a good biographer to take him on.
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John, I take it you didn't care for Peter Manso's (I think it was) biography of Mailer that came out in the '80s?
Posted on November 10, 2007 5:16 PM
I haven't read it. Was it good? My assumption/belief is that the best biographies are done after the subject has passed.
Posted on November 11, 2007 9:00 AM