Esquire serialization of, 332, 333, 337–40
NM’s Bellevue experiences as material for, 287
NM’s revisions to, 344, 345, 346
publication party for, 348–49
reviews of, 349–50, 351, 385
smell as key subject in, 331, 579
Warner Bros. option on, 339, 342
writing of, 333–35, 337–40
American Psycho (Ellis), 646–47
American Renaissance (Matthiessen), 31, 90, 99
American Scholar, 229
“American Soul? What Is It?” (Naropa Institute panel), 600
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 121, 504
American Tragedy (Schiller and Willwerth), NM’s teleplay for, 712, 713
American Zoetrope Films, 617
Amerman, Kathy, 760
Amis, Kingsley, 303
Amis, Martin, 683
Amussen, Theodore, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 54, 56, 94, 160, 170, 171, 175, 184
Ancient Evenings (Mailer), 311, 431, 446, 504, 554, 703, 713, 752
first person point of view in, 577, 579–80, 582, 584
Osiris and Isis myth in, 578, 579, 582
planned sequels to, 581
publicity tour for, 574, 578
Ramses II story in, 502, 579, 580, 582–83
reviews for, 578, 579–80, 581, 582
writing of, 441, 452, 453–54, 470, 472, 477, 478, 483–84, 486, 494, 495–96, 499, 501, 544, 545, 546, 553, 561, 569, 570, 614
Anderson, Walter, 153, 550, 551
Anger, Kenneth, 375
Angleton, James Jesus, 629–30, 639, 644
Anhalt, Harvey, 96
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 10, 80, 83, 84, 96, 363
Another Country (Baldwin), 326
Anson, Robert Sam, 553
Anthony Adverse (Allen), 646
anticommunism, 99, 111, 115, 129, 153–54, 163
anti-Semitism, 16–17, 21–22, 694
Apocalypse Now (film), 542
Apollo 11 mission, 410, 421–23, 427, 433
Arbus, Diane, 326
Argyll, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of, 295, 309
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 60, 156, 351, 368, 381–91, 395, 399, 405, 433, 470, 535, 540, 613–14, 727
awards won by, 393–94, 397, 410–11, 416, 417
British edition of, 411, 412
Harper’s publication of, 390–91, 392–93, 398
Lowell’s depiction in, 385–86, 387, 388, 389–90
NM as character in, 382–86
reviews of, 397, 649
use of third person personal in, 383, 386, 396
arms race, 317
Armstrong, Neil, 422
Army, U.S., 66, 80
see also Mailer, Norman, army service; 112th Cavalry Regiment
Arnell, Amy, 27
Arquette, Rosanna, 567
ARTE, 687–89, 694
Arthurs, Peter, 605
Article 19, 637
Asian American Journalists Association, 739
Assassination Information Bureau, 654
Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy (ASK), 676
Athill, Diana, 120
Atkin, Edith, 703
Atlantic Monthly, 468, 686, 742
Atlas, James, 535–36, 537, 565, 615
Atwood, Margaret, 609
Auchincloss, Louis, 163
Auden, W. H., 309
Austen, Howard, 512, 513–14
Authors Guild, 637
Avedon, Richard, 464
Badalamenti, Angelo, 621
Badillo, Herman, 419
Baer, Max, 736
Bailey, John, 620, 622–23
Baker, Howard, 38, 461
Balbert, Peter, 674
Baldwin, James, 143, 147, 209, 220, 229, 250, 260, 264, 289, 326, 352
NM’s friendship with, 208, 210–11, 258, 266
NM’s letters to, 212, 234
“Ballots vs. Book Burning” (Mailer speech), 112
Bancroft, Anne, 226
Bantu Philosophy (Tempels), 479
Barbary Shore (Mailer), 94, 103, 115, 121, 129–30, 132, 137, 175, 179, 239, 261
good review/bad review advertisement for, 134
reviews of, 128, 129, 134, 135, 138, 145, 193
writing of, 117–18, 120, 126, 127, 128
Baron, Richard, 348
Barrett, Nicole Baker, 503, 505–6, 512, 532, 533, 534
Barrett, William, 252
Barry, Anne, 315–17, 323, 324, 337, 349, 366, 401, 738
Barthelme, Donald, 608
Barton, Bruce “Pete,” 28–29, 37, 45, 46, 47–48
Batista, Fulgencio, 263–64, 592
“Battle of the Pentagon, The” (Mailer), 394
see also Armies of the Night, The
Baudelaire, Charles, 225
Bay of Pigs, 467, 613, 648
Beame, Abe, 358
Beaton, Cecil, 464
Beats, 223, 224, 227, 239–40, 245, 281, 331
Beatty, Warren, 681
Beauvoir, Simone de, 130, 264, 433
Beaverbrook, William “Max” Aitken, Lord, 295, 309
Beckett, Samuel, 206, 207–8, 280
Begiebing, Robert, 582–83, 584
Behan, Brendan, 267
Belkin, Madeline, 366
Bellamy, Richard, 136
Bellevue Hospital, 286–88, 318
Bell for Adano, A (Hersey), 61
Bellow, Saul, 131, 137, 147, 174, 248, 260, 326–27, 347–48, 359, 501, 527, 602–3, 638
Benet-Goitia, Paco, 105–6
Bennett, Myrtle, 445, 486, 494
Bentley, Beverly (NM’s fourth wife), 337, 340, 348, 349, 416, 428, 448, 456, 475, 763
acting career of, 327, 328, 365, 368, 369–70, 372, 375, 380, 420–21, 522
Fanny’s relationship with, 337
in Maidstone, 401, 402
marriage of NM and, 337, 342–43, 368–70, 377, 391, 393, 394, 412, 420–21, 423
NM’s divorce from, 522–24, 525
and NM’s mayoral campaign, 418, 420
Norris and, 522
pregnancies of, 331, 337, 339, 359, 363
premarital relationship of NM and, 327, 328–29, 330–31
separation of NM and, 404, 425, 471, 473, 476, 485, 486
Benton, Walter, 68
Berg, Astrid, 748
Bernstein, Carl, 461, 462
Bernstein, Mashey, 573, 619
Berry, Halle, 698
Bersani, Leo, 350
Berthoff, Warner, 383
Beyond the Law (film), 379–81, 398–99, 400, 624, 629, 732
Bible, NM’s reading of, 694–95, 696
Biddle, Nettie, 280, 281
“Big Bite, The” (Mailer), see Esquire, NM’s columns for
Big Empty, The (N. and J.B. Mailer), 721, 738, 740, 745–46
Big Fisherman, The (Douglas), 117
Big Table, 228
“Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway), 51
Binibon, 558, 561
biorhythms, 508, 509
Birdy (Wharton), 529
“Black and White Justice” (Mailer), 693
Blackiston, Lester, 266, 279, 285
Black Panther Party, 364
Black Power, 426, 455
Blair, Betsy, 111
Blair, William S., 439
Blake, Jim, 749
Blood of the Poet (film), 96
Bloom, Harold, 704–5, 726
Bloomgarden, Kermit, 107
Blue Velvet (film), 621
“Boat of Ra, The” (Mailer; unfinished novel), 581, 583, 599
“Bodily Function Blues, The” (Mailer), 45
Bogan, Louise, 147
Bogdanovich, Peter, 487, 493
Bonetti, Eddie, 380, 401, 451, 618, 642
“Book of the First-Born, The” (Mailer; unfinished novel), 360–62, 376, 377, 392, 581
Borovik, Genrikh, 598
Boston, 537
Boston Globe, 685
Boston Herald, 523
/> Boston Review, 562
Boston State Hospital, 49, 167
Bourjaily, Tina, 163, 178, 366
Bourjaily, Vance, 137, 138, 149, 162–63, 195, 337, 366, 444, 579
NM’s letters to, 138, 159, 178
Bowers, John, 157–58
Bowles, Jane, 57
Bowles, Paul, 137, 161
“Boxing with Hemingway” (Mailer), 703
Boyer, Charles, 122
Boys High (Brooklyn), 22, 23
Braddock, James, 736
Bradford, Ned, 423, 526, 528
Bradman, Phyllis, 23, 28, 29, 36
Brando, Marlon, 118, 125, 136, 178, 195, 267, 542
Branstein, Robert (char.), 40–41, 42
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 244
Breaking Ranks (Podhoretz), 396–97
Breasted, Mary, 521
Breit, Harvey, 90, 128, 169, 195, 325, 338, 428
Breit, Luke, 428
Breslin, Jimmy, 413, 414–15, 416–17, 418, 419, 460, 462, 533
Breslow, Seymour “Sy,” 26, 34, 35, 43
Bridgewater, Conn., 211, 214
Brill, Joseph, 287
Brinkley, Douglas, 738–39
Broadwater, Bowden, 37, 38, 47
Brooklyn, N.Y., NM’s house in, 309–10, 323, 328, 337, 456, 494, 504, 519, 539, 628, 631, 655, 759
Brooklyn Dodgers, 96
Brooklyn Heights Press, 417
Brookman, Paul, 728
Brooks, Peter, 615
Brophy, Brigid, 443
Brosnan, Jim, 276
Brossard, Chandler, 216, 224
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 79
Brower, Brock, 352, 357, 535
Brower, Millie, 38, 54, 96, 161
Brown, Charlie, 332, 346
Brown, Francis, 210
Brown, Harry, 71
Brown, Jerry, 513
Brown, Nicole, 693
Brown, Tina, 607, 615, 646, 682
Brown (char.), 87–88
Brownell, Sonia, 312, 314–15
Broyard, Anatole, 436, 442, 443
Bruce, Lenny, 237, 262–63, 511, 651
Buber, Martin, 206–7
Buchanan, Pat, 696
Buchenwald, 210, 527
Buchman, Harry, 180
Buckley, Richard “Lord,” 273
Buckley, William F., 109, 337, 350, 357, 358, 382, 435, 535, 602, 608
NM’s debate with, 315, 317–20, 324
Budge, E. A. Wallis, 472, 574, 575, 578
Bufithis, Philip, 129, 583
Bulge, Battle of the, 64
Bullfight, The, 374
Bundy, McGeorge, 356, 371
Burgess, Anthony, 311, 579
Burnett, Whit, 38, 39, 43, 47
Burns, Francis J., 286
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 16
Burroughs, William, 250–51, 262–63, 275, 279, 313, 314, 326, 346, 374, 408, 573, 599, 600
Busa, Chris, 621, 642, 748
Busa, Peter, 642
Bush, George W., 721, 727–29, 736, 738, 745
Bushnell, Debbie, 510
Buxton, Glen, 539
Cadillac Mountain, 429
Cagney, James, 19, 550
Caine Mutiny, The (Wouk), 162–63
Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The (Wouk), 169
Calculus at Heaven, A (Mailer), 51–53, 54, 57, 76
Calder, John, 314–15
California, University of, Berkeley, 355–56, 456–57
Callaghan, Morley, 703
“Call to War Tax Resistance,” 425
Cambodia, bombing of, 455
Cameron, Angus, 89
Campbell, James, 208, 210–11, 706, 726
Campbell, Jeanne Louise (NM’s third wife), 295, 296, 306, 328, 335, 336, 338, 369, 401, 458, 459, 523, 665
breakup of NM’s marriage to, 323–25, 327, 336
Fanny’s relationship with, 323–24
marriage of NM and, 309–10, 311–12, 315, 336–37
pregnancy of, 306, 308, 310, 312
premarital relationship of NM and, 290, 294–97, 302, 304, 306, 308–9
Camus, Albert, 313
Canby, Vincent, 380–81, 614, 624
“Cancer” (Mailer), 330
Cannes Film Festival, 623–24
Cannibals and Christians (Mailer), 300, 346, 359, 363, 367–68, 377, 378, 422, 727
Cannon Films, 617, 623, 627
Capa, Robert, 39
capital punishment, NM’s Parade article on, 550–51
Capote, Truman, 38, 107, 137, 143, 175, 244–45, 249, 260, 264, 273, 309, 352, 529, 531, 534
Black and White Ball of, 370–72, 459
Executioner’s Song and, 530–32
NM’s relationship with, 530–31
Capouya, Emile “Mike,” 306
CARIC, 462
Caro, Robert, 637
Carpenter, Don, 297, 331
NM’s letters to, 305, 316–17, 333–34, 376–77, 605
Carraway, Nick (char.), 155, 192–93
Carroll, Paul, 237, 377, 401, 639
Carson, Rachel, 317
Carter, Douglas, 358
Carter, Jimmy, 500, 631
Case Closed (Posner), 666, 676, 678
Cassavetes, John, 403, 458
Castle, The (Kafka), 118
Castle in the Forest, The (Mailer), 21, 63, 629, 734, 747
beekeeping in, 712, 713, 753
Nicholas and Alexandra section in, 741, 743–45
NM’s interviews for, 751, 753
reviews of, 752–53
writing of, 712–14, 718, 724–25, 736, 738, 741, 743
Castro, Fidel, 263–64, 276, 306, 320, 400, 446, 613, 629, 643, 648, 704
Catch-22 (Heller), 326
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 249
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, 448
Catherine, Jean-Pierre, 689
Cavett, Dick, 447, 449, 450, 500, 535, 554, 566
see also Dick Cavett Show, The
Ceballos, Jacqueline, 442
Centrello, Gina, 743–45
Century of Arts and Letters, A, 653
Cerf, Bennett, 216
Cetrano, Sal, 546, 547, 724
C. G. Jung: His Life and Work (Hannah), 707
Chaiken, Michael, 96, 375, 399, 403, 756–57
Chaplin, Charlie, 112, 116, 125, 136, 264
“Character of the Victim, The” (Mailer and Malaquais; unfinished film script), 122, 126
Chase, Richard, 252
Cheap Diamonds (Norris Mailer), 730
Cheever, John, 276, 362, 540, 550, 605
Cheney, Dick, 745
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 615, 638, 649–50
Chicago, Ill., Democratic Convention of 1968 in, 428
Chicago, University of, 237
Chicago Seven trial, 428
Chicago Tribune, 350, 565
Chinlund, Steve, 287
Chloe (char.), 597, 661
Chomsky, Noam, 387
Choshi, Japan, 79, 80, 81, 83
Churchill, Randolph, 295, 306, 328
Churchill, Winston, 32, 55, 93, 295
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 116, 499, 599, 625, 676
Castro assassination attempts of, 613, 648
NM’s depiction of, see Harlot’s Ghost
Ciardi, John, 346
Cinderella Man (film), 736–37
“Cities Higher than Mountains” (Mailer), 346
Citizens’ Emergency Committee, 273–74, 279
Citron, Stephen, 475
City Lights, 220, 221
“City of God, The” (Mailer; unfinished novel), 181, 189, 599
Civil Rights Act, 345
civil rights movement, 323
Civil Service Commission, 153
Clarke, Shirley, 403
Cleaver, Eldridge, 364, 537
Clift, Montgomery, 111, 119, 121, 122, 136, 138–39, 157
Clinton, Bill, 484, 601, 653, 696–97, 698, 703
Clinton, Hillary, 601, 6
53
club fighters, 215–16
Cocoanut Grove fire, 52
Cocteau, Jean, 96
Coetzee, J. M., 753
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 387
Cold War, 93, 112, 317, 631, 644, 693, 695
Collins, Michael, 422
Colodro, Alejandro, 601, 763
Colodro, Marco, 537, 539, 549, 601, 732
Colodro, Valentina, 570
Colony, The (Bowers), 157–58
Columbia University, sit-in at, 400
Commentary, 228, 294, 324, 394, 396
NM’s columns in, 7
Commonwealth Club of California, 727
communists, 113, 153
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 532
Conant, James B., 31, 43
concentration camps, 77, 725
Concept of Dread, The (Kierkegaard), 318–19
Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron), 377, 440
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 116
Connolly, Cyril, 195
Conrad, Charles “Pete,” 422
Conrad, Harold, 331, 380
Conrad, Joseph, 100
Conrad, Mara Lynn, 331, 380
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Ekermann, 713
Cook, Molly Malone, 459, 473, 486, 490, 491, 503
Cooper, Douglas, 665
Cooper, Wilhelmina, 493
Corsaro, Frank, 226
Cory, Donald Webster, 174
Cosmopolitan, 324, 494, 596
Counter-Spy, 462
“Country, Not a Scenario, A” (Mailer), 598–99
Cours de Civilisation Française, 98
Cowles, John, Jr., 439, 440
Cowley, Malcolm, 197
Cox, John, 285, 286
“Crack-Up, The” (Fitzgerald), 180
Crane, Hart, 131, 309
Creation (Vidal), 575
Crockett, John, 32, 37, 39, 47–48
Croft, Sam (char.), 60, 73, 76, 80–81, 86, 87, 91–92, 102, 240
Cromie, Bob, 602
Crosby, Harry, 581–82
Cross and the Arrow, The (Maltz), 83
Crossing the Threshold of Hope (John Paul II), 695
Cross-Section: A Collection of New American Writing, 57, 61, 74
Crowe, Russell, 736–37
Crowther, Frank, 458, 459, 460, 461–62, 478
Crying of Lot 49, The (Pynchon), 611
Cuba, 276, 446, 467
Cuban Missile Crisis, 317, 613, 631, 643, 648
Cuban Revolution, 261, 263–64, 278
Cummings, Edward (char.), 76, 83, 84, 86–87, 90, 91–93, 95, 108, 129, 154, 175
Cunningham, Julian W., 67, 71, 75
Cuomo, Mario, 653
Cupp, Wyatt, 506
Czienwicz, “Polack” (char.), 87–88, 102–3
Dachau concentration camp, 725
Daisy Miller (film), 487
Daley, Richard, 273, 407–8
Dallas, Tex., 666
D’Amato, Cus, 322, 447, 546
Damico, Ida, 511
Damico, Vern, 506, 511
Danby-Smith, Valerie, 267, 327
Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 61
“Darndest Thing Happened on Mars, The” (Mailer), 49
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