Daugherty, Jim, 462
David Frost Show, The, 434
Davis, Barbara, see Mailer, Norris Church
Davis, Gaynell, 722, 725, 755
Davis, James, 694, 722–23
Davis, Miles, 328, 348
Davis, Robert Gorham, 35, 37, 38, 39, 137, 252, 501–2, 579
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 263
D-Day invasion, 62
DEA, NM as target of, 571–73
“Dead Are Dying of Thirst, The” (Mailer), 482
“Dead Gook, The” (Mailer), 72, 139, 149
Dean, John, 461
Dearborn, Mary, 369
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (Lifton), 397
Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 150
Death of a Salesman, The (Miller), 93, 107
“Death of Tragedy, The” (Abbott), 619
“Death of Justina, The” (Cheever), 276
Death of Tragedy, The (Abbott; play), 543
Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (Mailer), 293–94, 310, 319, 385, 430, 448, 730
Decline of the West, The (Spengler), 63–64, 117
Decter, Midge, 227, 289, 391, 392–93, 396–97
Deer Park, The (Mailer), 69, 92, 95, 118, 131, 136, 170–71, 179–80, 212, 216, 224, 237, 254, 270, 271, 300, 350, 587
Aldridge’s critique of, 151–52, 154, 156
fellatio scene in, 160, 171, 178
friends’ reaction to, 172–73, 213
as ground-breaking novel, 213–14
Hemingway’s advance copy of, 195–96
NM’s interviews for, 196–97
NM’s Village Voice ad for, 198
point of view in, 155–56, 236
Putnam’s as publisher of, 181, 190, 192
reviews of, 197–98, 217
Rinehart and, 151, 178–79, 181–82
writing of, 137, 139, 146, 148, 150, 151, 154, 155, 159, 161, 162, 166, 169–70, 193
Deer Park, The—A Play (Mailer), 216, 224–25, 266, 362, 365, 755
Actors Studio readings of, 226
off-Broadway production of, 369, 370, 372–74, 375, 615
proposed film of, 752, 757
Provincetown production of, 368, 369
reviews of, 372–73
de Gaulle, Charles, 246
de Grazia, Edward, 381, 383, 391
de Kooning, Willem, 137
DeLillo, Don, 633–34, 637, 647, 654, 677, 757
Dell, 332, 339
DeLorean, John, 572
Democratic National Convention:
of 1960, 265, 268
of 1968, 404–5, 428
of 1972, 454–55
of 1992, 653
DeMott, Benjamin, 433, 578, 579, 582
Denby, David, 705–6
De Niro, Robert, 493, 615
de St. Andre, Veronique, 558
Des Pres, Terrence, 557–58
Deutsch, André, 120, 277, 302, 344–45
“Devil’s Advocate, The” (Mailer; unfinished novel), 115
Devine, Dick, 285
Devlin, Charles, 94–95, 113, 129, 162, 170
DeVoto, Bernard, 89, 90, 91, 154
Dewey, Thomas E., 112
Dexter, Bruce, 605, 618, 702
“Dialogue on Women’s Liberation, A” (Town Hall debate), 441–43, 444–45
Dial Press, 332, 339, 348, 372, 373
Diario, El, 445
Dick Cavett Show, The, 554, 566
NM’s debate with Vidal on, 449–51
NM-Torres boxing match on, 447–48, 512
Dickens, Charles, 333
Dickstein, Morris, 220, 221, 434
Didion, Joan, 249, 350, 435, 540–41, 602, 637
Dieter (char.), 743–44, 751
Diggs, Hetty, 417
DiMaggio, Joe, 214, 463
Discovery, 149, 162
Dissent, 147, 161, 205, 221, 223, 228, 263, 306–7
D. J. (char.), 365, 378–79
D. J. (Mailer; play), 448–49
Doctorow, E. L., 549, 608, 629, 637, 732, 756
Dole, Bob, 698
Donald, Roger, 528
Donaldson, Sam, 661
Don Juan in Hell (Shaw), 653, 666
NM’s productions of, 162, 723–24
“Don Learo” (Mailer; screenplay), 614, 617–18, 619, 620
Donoghue, Denis, 378
Donoghue, Fay Mowery, 267, 280
Donoghue, Roger, 267, 280, 282, 285, 320, 327, 380
Don’t Look Back (film), 375
Dorius, Earl, 533
Dos Passos, John, 27, 28, 30, 32, 41, 88, 106, 128, 130, 131, 201, 703–4
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 79, 167, 239–40, 333
Doubleday, 517, 675, 676
Douglas, Lloyd C., 117
Doyle, Pat, 748, 763
Dreaming War (Vidal), 728
Dreiser, Theodore, 46, 121, 504
Dr. Strangelove (film), 339
Duchin, Peter, 280
Dugan, Alan, 639
Dukakis, Michael, 632
Dulles, Allen, 629
Dunne, John Gregory, 350
Dunster House, 42, 44, 51, 55
Dupee, F. W., 252
Durant, Will, 446
Durrell, Lawrence, 313
Dylan, Bob, 367, 375, 500
Dynamite Club, 654
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 598
“Earl and Lyndon: An Imaginary Conversation” (Mailer; play), 654
Ebershoff, David, 743–45, 753
Ebert, Roger, 380, 624, 626
Economist, 683–84
Edd, Karl, 275
Ed Sullivan Show, The, 339
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 392
Edwards, Anne, 475
Egan, William, 347
“Ego: The Ali-Frazier Fight” (Mailer), 434–35, 441, 446, 478
Egypt, ancient, 452, 472
concept of soul in, 574–75, 577–78
role of magic in, 576
Egyptian Book of the Dead, The (Budge, ed.), 472, 574, 580
Ehrlich, Robert, 92
Ehrlichmann, John, 501
Eichmann, Adolf, 303
Eisenhower, Dwight, 163, 207, 217–18, 220, 261, 265, 343
Eitel, Charles Francis (char.), 131, 146, 154, 156, 162, 193, 225, 362, 372, 373
election, U.S.:
of 1960, 265, 269, 270, 272–73, 276
of 1964, 343–44
of 1968, 409
of 1972, 454–55
of 1988, 632
Eliezer, Israel ben, 206–7
Eliot, T. S., 276, 277, 581–82, 630
Elliott, John, Jr., 37
Ellis, Bret Easton, 646–47, 706
Ellis, Havelock, 29, 44
Ellis, Nat, 81
Ellison, Ralph, 57, 208, 249, 353, 359, 362
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 386, 411
Eminent Victorians (Strachey), 68
Encounter, 276
End of My Life, The (Bourjaily), 137
Entrekin, Morgan, 684
Epstein, Arnold, 17, 24
Epstein, Edward Jay, 654, 678
Epstein, Jason, 281, 289, 512, 514, 556, 588, 602, 644, 645, 665–66, 674, 675, 677, 691, 695–96, 700–701, 743
Equal Pay Act (1963), 433
Equal Rights Amendment, 610
Erikson, Erik, 433
Erlanger, Steve, 739
Ertegun, Ahmet, 514
Ervin, Sam, 461
Esposito, Elena (char.), 146, 156, 162, 188, 193, 225, 362, 369, 372
Esquire, 27, 149, 179, 180, 228, 264–65, 270, 274–75, 276, 299, 306, 307, 324, 326, 333, 446–47, 474, 512, 514, 594, 611, 639, 680, 696, 751–52
American Dream serialized in, 332, 333, 337–40
Harlot’s Ghost excerpt in, 631–32
NM’s columns for, 300, 315, 316–17, 320, 324, 333, 344
Toback’s Maidstone piece in, 401–2, 403
“Evaluation: Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room” (Mailer), 247–51
Evans, Harry,
657, 676, 677, 691, 692
“Evening with Jackie Kennedy, An” (Mailer), 308
Evergreen Review, 310
Everitt, Raymond, 89
“Evil in the Room, The” (Mailer), 455
excrement, 310–11, 575, 579
Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer), 63, 92, 396, 474, 504, 528, 530–32, 535, 550, 569, 576, 704, 710–11, 713
Abbott and, 518–19
as bestseller, 540, 544
Gilmore’s letters to Nicole in, 532, 540
interviews for, 503–6, 508, 509–11, 528, 534
marketing of, 528–29
omniscient narrator in, 516–17
Pulitzer Prize won by, 529, 540
reviews of, 516–17, 540–41
Schiller as character in, 533–35, 540
as “true life novel,” 529–30, 535
writing of, 502, 508, 514–15, 519–20, 521–22, 525–26, 533
Executioner’s Song, The (TV miniseries), 568–70
“Executioner’s Song, The” (Mailer; poem), 340
Existential Errands (Mailer), 446
“Existential Evening, An,” 324
existentialism, 190, 191, 203, 207, 274, 278, 279, 307, 314, 317, 318–19, 380
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Kaufmann, ed.), 318
Exit Ghost (Roth), 730–31
Exner, Judith Campbell, 629
Explaining Hitler (Rosenbaum), 711–12
Exposé, 197
Express, 493
Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 263–64, 273
Faith of Graffiti, The (Mailer and Naar), 473–75
Falling Man (DeLillo), 757
Family, The (New York intellectuals), 228, 239, 240, 244, 254, 257, 356, 394, 395, 396
Fancher, Edwin, 112, 131, 144, 169, 195, 199–200
as Village Voice publisher, 194–95, 199, 204
Farbar, Buzz, 366, 372, 374, 375, 380, 398, 401, 413, 571–73, 593, 595, 623, 624
NM’s letters to, 597, 605, 622, 628
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 150
Farnol, Jeffery, 19
Farrar, John, 42, 94
Farrell, Barry, 503, 533
Farrell, James T., 27–28, 30, 32, 45–46, 128, 130, 280
Fasting Can Save Your Life, 445
“Fate” (Emerson), 411
Faulkner, William, 27, 35, 45–46, 189
Faye, Marion (char.), 92, 155, 166, 167, 189, 225, 235, 236, 310, 362, 372
FBI, 676, 718–19
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard), 167
Feiffer, Judy, 290
Feldman, Isadore, 75
Felker, Clay, 222, 265, 268, 269, 270, 275, 306, 332, 369, 414, 487, 513
Female Eunich, The (Greer), 432
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 433
feminism, 432, 433, 457
see also Women’s Liberation Movement
“Feminism and Its Discontents” (Vidal), 447, 514
Feminist Writers’ Guild, 607
Fenton, Charles, 229
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 331
Fertig, Howard, 229, 517, 752
Fiedler, Leslie, 147, 252, 299–300
Fifth Estate, 459–61, 462
Fifty-Minute Hour (Lindner), 164
52–20 Club, 76
Figes, Eva, 447
Fight, The (Mailer), 150, 482–83, 484, 486, 592, 699
Filmmakers’ Cinémathèque, 375, 403
Fingerhood, Shirley, 524
Firing Line, 535
“First Meeting with Norman, 1962” (Barry), 316
Fisher, Diane, 624
Fisher, Ivan, 153, 561, 562, 594, 595, 624
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 27, 35, 131, 180, 197, 251, 280, 350, 360, 486, 637, 716, 717
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 716, 717
Flaherty, Joe, 412–13, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419
Flanner, Janet, 449–50
Flash (Mallory), 594
Flaubert, Gustave, 243, 261, 575–76
Foley, Martha, 38
Fonda, Henry, 169
Foreman, George, 478, 479, 480, 481–82, 699
Forman, Milos, 549, 550, 567, 608
Fornes, Irene, 144
“For Norman Mailer” (Lowell), 389
Forster, E. M., 102
Fortuna, David, 723
Fortune Society, 557, 566
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 39
Foster, Bob, 400
“Foundation, The” (Mailer), see Calculus at Heaven, A
Franciosa, Tony, 280–81
Franny and Zooey (Salinger), 326
Franzen, Jonathan, 636
Fraser, Brendan, 698
Frazer, James George, 564, 576
Frazier, Joe, 434, 478
Fredrickson, Eileen, 541–42, 595, 660, 655, 659, 663, 755–56
Fremont-Smith, Eliot, 368, 409, 582
Freud, Sigmund, 44, 133, 163, 164, 167, 185, 337, 433
Friedan, Betty, 433, 442, 609
Friedkin, William, 493
Friedman, Bruce Jay, 260
From Here to Eternity (film), 139, 157, 159, 173
From Here to Eternity (Jones), 132, 134–35, 156, 161, 163, 250, 252
Frost, David, 660
Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, 228
Führer, The: Hitler’s Rise to Power (Heiden), 63
Fuller, Edmund, 229
Furstenberg, Diane von, 459
Gaddis, William, 495
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 608
Galen, Russell, 589
Gallagher, Roy, 75
Gallagher (char.), 75, 87–88
García Lorca, Federico, 374
García Márquez, Gabriel, 634, 653
Gardiner, Robert David Lion, 401
Gardner, John, 298
Garen, Leo, 368, 372
Garfield, John, 112, 118
Gass, William, 500
Geist, Eileen, 99, 100
Geist, Stanley, 99, 100
“Gem-like Flame, The” (Auchincloss), 163
Genet, Jean, 565
“Genius, The” (Mailer), 455
Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (Mailer), 438, 486–87, 490, 492, 496–98, 500, 591
George, 696, 697–98
George Polk Award, 397
Germany, Nazi, 21–22, 32
Ghent, Emmanuel, 284, 285, 286
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (James), 605
Ghost Writer, The (Roth), 529
Giancana, Sam, 629
GI Bill, 76, 98
Gide, André, 100, 675
Gilmore, Bessie, 540–41
NM’s interview with, 509–10
Gilmore, Gary, 54, 92, 435, 502, 511, 512, 526, 531
Barrett and, 503
execution of, 503, 550
final words of (“Let’s do it”), 515, 538
karma and reincarnation as beliefs of, 505, 526, 575
letters to Barrett by, 532, 540
Schiller’s interview with, 503–4, 534
suicide attempts of, 503, 533
Gilmore Girls (TV show), 737
Gingrich, Arnold, 274, 338
Ginsberg, Allen, 193, 227, 242, 275, 279, 281, 346, 348, 374, 385, 408, 425, 454, 599–600, 738–39
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin), 209, 210, 229
Giuliani, Rudolph, 414
Glazer, David, 525
Globus, Yoram, 617
Gnostic Gospels, The (Pagels), 696
Gobel, George, 201
Godard, Jean-Luc, 614, 617, 623
Gödel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter), 529
God Is Not Great (Hitchens), 757
Goethals, George Washington, 37, 47, 56
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 713
Golan, Menahem, 617, 621, 624
Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 564, 576
Goldman, Aaron, 17
Goldman, Albert, 470, 511
Goldman, Ronald, 693
Goldstein, Joey (char.), 8, 75, 87–88
Goldwate
r, Barry, 317, 343–44, 454
Goldwyn, Samuel, 122, 126
Gondelman, Denise (char.), 205, 252–53, 362
Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood), 102
Good Daughter, The (Danielle Mailer), 616
Goodman, Mitchell, 98, 381, 387
Goodman, Paul, 306–7, 383, 387
Goodman, Walter, 727
Good Morning America, 557
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 500, 525, 572, 734–35
Goodwin, Richard, 308, 500, 523, 525, 572, 628, 734
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 599
Gordon, Andrew, 253
Go See (Norris Mailer), 624
Gospel According to the Son, The (Mailer), 449, 639, 695–96, 698, 703, 728
reviews of, 699–701, 739
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin), 208
Go to the Widow-Maker (Jones), 377
Graetz, Heinrich, 527
graffiti, 473–75
Graham, Katharine, 370, 512
Granger, Farley, 111, 118
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 27
Grass, Günter, 756
Gravel, Mike, 347, 352
Graves, Ralph, 434
Graves, Robert, 68
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 495
Great Depression, 17, 19, 33
“Greatest Thing in the World, The” (Mailer), 37–38, 39, 42, 47, 54
“Greatest Thing in the World, The” (Matthew Mailer; play), 616
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 155, 350
Greene, Amy, 493
Greene, Graham, 195, 303, 315
Greene, Milton, 493–94, 537
Greenwich Village, 198–99, 242
Greer, Germaine, 432, 441, 442, 443, 446, 540
Gregory, Paul, 169, 173, 178, 194
Grey, Harry, 493
Griffith, Emile, 320–21
Griffith, Thomas, 422
Griffiths, Clyde, 121
Grimaldi, Alberto, 493
Grobel, Lawrence, 531
Grosset and Dunlap, 462, 465, 466
Grove/Atlantic, 676, 684
Grove Press, 346, 401, 486
Growing Up Absurd (Goodman), 306–7
Grunwald, Henry, 411, 431
Guadalcanal, battle of, 52
Guevara, Che, 264
Guiles, Fred Lawrence, 462, 463, 466
Guilfoyle, Paul, 448
Guinevere, Mrs. (char.), 102, 103, 128–29, 134
Gurney, A. R., 715
Gurney, Toni, 511
Gutwillig, Robert, 392, 409
Guy Domville (James), 404
Gwaltney, Ecey, 109, 119, 136, 151, 173, 328, 356, 484, 573
Gwaltney, Francis Irby “Fig,” 75, 76, 107, 109, 119, 136, 151, 173, 213, 290, 328, 356, 484, 573
NM’s letters to, 98, 99, 102, 117–18, 121, 126, 146, 170, 310, 326, 332, 333, 337, 479
Haggerty, James, 218
Halberstam, David, 440, 550
Hamill, Pete, 270, 272, 347, 352, 380, 413, 414, 445, 461, 513, 685
Hammett, Dashiell, 116
Handy, Harry, 156–57
Handy, Lowney, 156–58, 191
Hannah, Barbara, 707
Hanssen, Bonnie, 719–20
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