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Hanssen, Robert, 678, 718–20
Hanssen spy case, NM’s teleplay on, 718–20, 721
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 116, 349, 385, 442
Harlot (char.), see Montague, Hugh Tremont
“Harlot High and Low, A” (Mailer), 499, 569, 599
Harlot’s Ghost (Mailer), 429, 597, 605, 613, 629–36, 643–44, 650, 657, 691
Alpha-Omega theory in, 635–36, 643, 649
publicity tour for, 652–53, 659–60
reviews of, 645–46, 647–50
Uruguay section of, 613, 634–36, 647, 649, 743
writing of, 607, 611–12, 614, 618, 620, 622–23, 625, 626, 629, 630–31, 632–33, 638–39, 642, 644, 651
“Harlot’s Grave” (Mailer; unfinished novel), 644, 648, 652, 653, 664, 677, 691, 692, 695, 698, 701–2, 707, 712, 734
Harmon, Susan, 414
Harper’s, 307, 350, 378, 404, 408, 423, 441, 565
Armies of the Night published in, 390–91, 392–93, 398
Morris’s resignation from, 439–40
“Prisoner of Sex” published in, 431, 435, 440
Harper’s Bazaar, 142–43
Harrison, Thomas, 552
Harry G. (Bellevue inmate), 287–88, 305, 312, 352
Harvard Advocate, 26, 28, 30, 32, 37, 39, 42, 46, 47–48, 242, 569
Harvard Board of Overseers, 411, 412
Harvard Crimson, 31, 38, 46–47, 52
Harvard Dramatic Society, 51, 52
Harvard Lampoon, The, 28
Harvard University, 167
isolationist-interventionist split at, 30–32
NM at, see Mailer, Norman, at Harvard
NM’s Nieman Fellows lecture at, 745
racial makeup of student body at, 26
Theodore White on, 25
Harvey, William King “Bill” (char.), 629, 635, 647, 648
Hasidim, 206–7
“Havana” (Mailer; screenplay), 592, 620
Hayden, Tom, 400
Haydn, Hiram, 179
Hayes, Harold, 265, 270, 332, 337–38, 344, 446–47, 474
Hayward, Max, 314–15
Hearn, Robert (char.), 76, 83, 84, 86–87, 90, 95, 108, 120, 129, 154
Hearst, William Randolph, 414
Hecht, Ben, 462
Hecht, Harold, 120, 121, 126, 512
Hefner, Hugh, 315, 322
Heidegger, Martin, 317, 318, 319
Heiden, Konrad, 63
Heller, Joseph, 38, 260, 326
Hellman, Lillian, 116, 136, 151, 169, 195, 227, 289, 364, 366, 371, 513
Naked and the Dead dramatization attempted by, 2, 107, 108, 117, 120, 126, 169
Hemingway, Ernest, 27, 35, 37, 39, 45–46, 51, 62, 128, 131, 150, 196, 254, 259, 278, 303, 327, 336, 353, 359, 424, 448, 481, 497, 630, 716
advance copy of Deer Park sent to, 195–96
NM on, 150, 300–302, 716
suicide of, 297–300, 302
Hemingway, Gregory, 501
Hemingway, John, 737
“Hemingway in Ketchum” (Fiedler), 300
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 326–27
Hersey, John, 61, 71
Hersh, Seymour, 440
Herzenberg, Jere, 521
Herzog (Bellow), 347–48
“He Was Her Man” (Mailer), 35
Hickock, Richard, 477, 531, 534
Hicks, Granville, 350, 378
High Times, 539
Hills, Rusty, 338
Hillyer, Robert, 53
“Hip, Hell, and the Navigator” (Stern/Mailer interview), 238–39, 244
Hip, NM’s philosophy of, 203, 208, 219–20, 238–39, 240, 279
history, catastrophic theory of, 96–97, 170
“History as a Novel” (Mailer), see Armies of the Night, The
History of Magic and Experimental Science (Thorndike), 576
History of the Jews (Graetz), 527–28
Hitchens, Christopher, 16, 637, 649, 683, 757
Hitler, Adolf, 21–22, 54, 63, 435, 477, 711–12, 725
NM’s novel about, see Castle in the Forest, The (Mailer)
Hitler, Alois, 745, 753
Hitler’s Youth (Jetzinger), 712
Hittites, 502, 579
Hodder and Stoughton, 536
Hoffman, Abbie, 382, 428, 453, 455, 557, 704
Hoffman, Dustin, 615
Hofstadter, Douglas, 529
Holbrooke, Richard, 279–80
Holiday, Billie, 273
Hollingsworth, Leroy (char.), 128, 129, 175
Hollywood Reporter, 540
Hollywood Ten, 111
Holmes, Carol, 486, 507
Holmes, John Clellon, 239–40
Holmes, Larry, 631
Home Town (Simenon), 79, 83
Homosexual in America, The (Cory), 174
“Homosexual Villain, The” (Mailer), 174–75
Hoods, The (Grey), 493
Hook, Sidney, 116
Hooking Up (Wolfe), 710
Hooper, Philip, 72
Hoover, J. Edgar, 273, 629
Hopkins, Will, 467
Hornet, USS, 425
Horney, Karen, 167
Horowitz, Glenn, 737
Horton, Lieutenant, 72, 73, 76
Hotchner, A. E., 259
Houdini, Harry, 509
Hougan, Jim, 654
House Un-American Activities Committee, 155
Howard, Henry, 564, 722
Howard, Richard, 608
Howard, Ron, 736
Howe, Irving, 113, 117, 134, 147, 161, 195, 205, 252, 257, 278, 356, 364
Hubbard, Herrick “Harry” (char.), 629, 630, 634–35, 643, 648, 651
Hughes, Langston, 116
Hukbalahap (Huks), 71–72
“Humanities in a Time of War, The” (Matthiessen), 32
Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow), 137, 501, 603
Humes, Anna Lou, 280, 283
Humes, Harold L. “Doc,” 273–74, 279, 280, 281, 283–85
Humphrey, Hubert H., 265, 405, 408, 409
Hunt, Dorothy, 635, 643
Hunt, Howard:
as character in Harlot’s Ghost, 629, 634–35, 647, 650–51
Harlot’s Ghost reviewed by, 650
Hurlburt, Allen, 464, 465, 467
Hurt, William, 721
Hussein, Saddam, 728
Huston, Aurora, 507, 661, 663, 725
Huston, John, 112
Huston, Phil, 661
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 501
Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 350
I, Claudius (Graves), 68
Idiot, The (Dostoyevsky), 333
In Cold Blood (Capote), 273, 371, 477, 529, 531, 534
Informer, The (O’Flaherty), 82, 83
Inge, William, 411
Inker, Monroe, 523, 524
In the Belly of the Beast (Abbott), 519, 545, 554, 557–59, 561
“In the Red Light: A History of the Republican Convention in 1964” (Mailer), 344, 408
“In This Corner, Norman Mailer, Never the Champion, Always the Challenger” (Brower), 357
Intimate Journals (Baudelaire), 225
Into the Mirror (Schiller), 721
Into the Valley (Hersey), 71
Invisible Man (Ellison), 249
Iraq War, 721, 727–28, 736, 738, 745
Ironweed (Kennedy), 732–33
IRS, 439, 472, 487, 493, 502, 523–24, 574
Irving, John, 602, 710–11, 715
Isherwood, Christopher, 102
Ishtar (film), 627
Israel, 478
Jackson, Charles, 79
Jackson, Jesse, 632
Jackson, Shirley, 57
James, Henry, 147, 379, 403, 404, 410, 497
James, M. R., 605
James, William, 46, 62, 187
Jantischek, Freidl, 725
Jantischek, Hans, 725, 750
Janklow, Mort, 513
Japan, 52
in battle for Luzon, 66–68, 69–70, 71–73, 74–75
occupation of, 78
–81
Pearl Harbor attack by, 43, 64
planned invasion of, 74, 77, 78
surrender of, 77, 78
Javits, Jacob, 459
Javits, Marion, 459
Jay, Peter, 513
J. B. Lippincott, 40
Jelke, John Faris, 155
Jelke, Minot “Mickey,” 155
Jensen, Colleen, 510
Jensen, Joe, 201, 202, 204
Jesus, 435, 699–700
see also Gospel According to the Son, The (Mailer)
Jetzinger, Franz, 712
JFK (film), 654
JFK Assassination, The: The Facts and Theories (Oglesby), 654
John, Gospel of, 695
John Paul II, Pope, 695
Johnson, Diane, 540
Johnson, Jeanne, 323, 324
Johnson, Lady Bird, 358–59
Johnson, Lyndon B., 265, 273, 343–46, 356, 358, 363–64, 405, 455, 654
Johnston, Jill, 441
Jokel, Lana, 403, 407
Joker, The (Malaquais), 100
Jonathan Cape, 134, 166
Jones, Gloria, 229, 232, 258, 517, 518
Jones, Howard Mumford, 46
Jones, James, 131, 139, 161, 163, 169, 191, 195, 223, 260, 290, 296, 326, 327, 348, 374, 377, 440, 613
Adele’s relationship with, 158
death of, 517
on Deer Park, 179
NM’s “Evaluation” comments on, 250, 258
NM’s friendship with, 132, 138, 142, 147–48, 156–57, 158, 170, 252, 517–18, 758
NM’s rapprochement with, 258
NM’s split with, 212–13, 229, 232–34
Jones, Kaylie, 517–18
Jones, Tommy Lee, 567, 569–70
Jong, Erica, 249, 609
Joyce, James, 29, 32, 46, 206
Joyce, Sandy (char.), 310–11, 362
JR (Gaddis), 495
Jung, Carl, 707
Jung, Mattie, 551
Junod, Tom, 751
Kadesh, Battle of, 502, 554, 579, 582
Kael, Pauline, 376, 468
Kafka, Franz, 118
Kakutani, Michiko, 683, 704
NM’s feud with, 686–87, 699, 726, 727, 739–40, 751
on NM’s relationship with Abbott, 565
pre-publication reviews by, 683, 686–87, 699, 726, 727, 739–40, 751
tribute to NM by, 763
Kaminsky, Howard, 504
Kamrass, Minnie, 8
Kapital, Das (Marx), 117, 121
Karnow, Stanley, 1
Karov, Joseph, 104, 110
Kaslow, Berta, 58, 59, 61, 106
Katahdin, Mount, 624–25
Katz, Harold, 26, 51
Kaufer, Maxwell, 26
Kaufman, Elaine, 459
Kaufmann, Donald, 352–53
Kaufmann, Myron, 26
Kaufmann, Walter, 318
Kazan, Elia, 226, 615
Kazin, Alfred, 92, 97, 221, 252, 253–54, 257–58, 260, 289, 364, 397, 726
Kazin, Pearl, 142–43
Keating, Kenneth, 345
Kelly, Barney Oswald (char.), 41, 256, 328, 339, 340–42
Kelly, Gene, 111
Kemp, Arnold, 287
Kempton, Murray, 228, 275, 320
Kennedy, Dana, 759
Kennedy, Gene and Sarah, 759
Kennedy, Jacqueline, see Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Kennedy, John F., 261, 262, 274, 306, 325, 337, 410, 433, 467, 643, 704
assassination of, 333, 334, 336, 370, 377, 599, 631, 648, 649, 653–54, 666, 669, 676
as character in American Dream, 334
as character in Harlot’s Ghost, 629
extramarital affairs of, 306, 613
in 1960 election, 265, 269, 272–73, 276
NM on, 266, 268, 334–35, 336
NM’s meetings with, 269–70
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 698
Kennedy, Robert F., 323, 345
assassination of, 400, 405, 411
as character in Harlot’s Ghost, 629
Monroe’s relationship with, 465, 467
Kennedy, William, 653, 732–34, 759
Kennedy family, 410, 412
Kent State University shootings, 428
Kermode, Frank, 700
Kerouac, Jack, 131, 193, 227, 239, 240, 242, 245, 249, 260, 738
Kerr, Walter, 372, 373–74
Kesey, Ken, 51
Kessler, Anne Mailer, 10–11, 13, 14, 17–18, 19, 33, 42, 55, 94, 134, 194
Kessler, David, 10–11, 13, 14, 17–18, 19, 33, 42, 54–55, 94, 96, 107, 134, 194, 255
KGB, 598, 667, 668
Oswald file of, 665, 668–71
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 636
Khrushchev, Nikita, 669
Khufu, Pyramid of, 478
Kidd, Janet Gladys, 304, 312
Kierkegaard, Søren, 167, 318–19
Kiesel, Harold, 24
Kimmelman, Michael, 685
King, Larry L., 440, 545–46, 459, 487
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 381, 426
assassination of, 400
King Lear (film), 623
NM’s screenplay for, see “Don Learo”
King of the Hill (Mailer), 448
Kingsley, Norman T. (char.), 400–401, 402
Kingsley Court, 14
Kitchen (film), 375–76
Kluger, Richard, 358–59
Knopf, Alfred, 180, 198
Knopf, Blanche, 180
“Know-Nothing Barbarians, The” (Podhoretz), 227
Knox, Georgette, 125, 287
Knox, Mickey, 113, 125, 126, 136, 147–48, 151, 153, 195, 205, 213, 226, 258, 263, 265, 267, 280, 281, 369, 372, 375, 380, 473, 492, 493, 602, 667, 698
and Adele’s stabbing, 285–86
NM’s letters to, 218–19, 224, 225, 235, 237, 244, 297, 306, 325, 334–35, 339, 342, 370, 374, 398, 404, 441, 445, 473, 486, 487, 501, 605, 607, 617, 623, 639, 643
Koch, Ed, 525, 610, 632
Koenig, Rhoda, 582
Koestler, Arthur, 61
Korean War, 120, 129
Kosinski, Jerzy, 556, 619
Kotlowitz, Robert, 392
Kovacs, Ernie, 201
Krakauer, Alice, 414
Krassner, Paul, 356
Krementz, Jill, 500, 554
Krim, Seymour, 266, 275, 279, 483
Krueger, Walter, 66
Kubizek, August, 712
Kubrick, Stanley, 339
Kurlansky, Mervyn, 474
Kuzma, Michael, 721
Lá-Bas (Huysmans), 501
La Capponcina, 295, 309
Lachmann, Jordan, 288
Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! (Goldman), 470, 511
Ladies’ Home Journal, 468
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 32, 33, 438, 439
Lakeview Lodge, 10–11
Lamarr, Hedy, 118
“Lament for Sánchez Mejías” (García Lorca), 374
LaMotta, Jake, 327–28
Lampert, Stanley, 26
Lancaster, Burt, 112, 118, 120, 121, 126
Lanchester, Elsa, 192
Landy, George, 122, 131
Lane, Mark, 370
Lang, Fritz, 96
Langlais, Rudy, 591–92
“Language of Men, The” (Mailer), 139, 149
Lanham, Richard, 294
Lansky, Meyer, 592
Laos, bombing of, 455
Lapham, Lewis, 440, 565
Lareine, Patty (char.), 584, 621
Larsen, Roy E., 39
Larsen, Wayne, 558
“Last Advertisement for Myself Before the Way Out” (Mailer), 251
“Last Night, The” (Mailer), 333, 361, 581
Last of the Just, The (Schwarz-Bart), 446, 576
Last Party, The (Morales), 141
Last Picture Show, The (film), 487
Last Sitting, The (Stern), 615
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 131, 197
Late Show with David Letterman, 680
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Laughton, Charles, 169, 178, 192, 194, 724
Lavaca, USS, 78
Lawford, Pat Kennedy, 371, 500, 524, 555, 601
Lawrence, D. H., 32, 36, 88, 92, 164, 187, 223, 433, 437, 438–39, 442, 488
Lawrence, Frieda, 438–39
Lazare, Rhoda, see Wolf, Rhoda Lazare
Leacock, Richard, 401
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 373
Lee, Spike, 699
Lee, Will, 372
Leeds, Barry H., 341, 548, 579
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 348, 434, 540, 579, 647–48
Leibovitz, Annie, 477
Lemmon, Jack, 459
Lenin, V. I., 598
Lennon, Donna, 714–15, 748, 750, 761, 763
Lennon, J. Michael “Mike,” 542, 562, 597, 702, 707, 714–15, 721, 723, 734, 735–36, 738, 748, 750, 752, 755, 758, 759
Lennon, John, 549, 572
Lennon, Peter, 542
Leonard, John, 461
Leone, Sergio, 492–93, 569
Letterman, David, 680
Letting Go (Roth), 326
Levertov, Denise, 98
Levin, Harry, 46
Levin, Meyer, 501
Levine, David, 455
Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 742
Levy, Rueben, 286
Lewis, Shirley R., 523–24
Lewis, Sinclair, 109, 114, 131
Libra (DeLillo), 633–34
Liebling, A. J., 322
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 250
Lies My Mother Never Told Me (K. Jones), 517–18
Life, 38, 39, 109, 116, 150, 217, 239, 299, 307, 349, 350, 351, 357, 410, 417, 434, 452, 455, 466, 535, 553
Of a Fire on the Moon serialized in, 421, 423
“Life Is Where You Find It” (Mailer), 33
Lifton, Betty Jean, 397
Lifton, Robert J., 397–98
Lincoln (Vidal), 602
Lind, Phyllis, 201
Lindner, Johnnie, 166, 168, 169
Lindner, Robert, 168, 169, 172, 184–85, 194, 213, 296, 438
death of, 202–3
Deer Park manuscript read by, 166
“Lipton’s Journal” read by, 185, 202
NM’s friendship with, 163–65, 166–68, 173, 175, 181, 184, 186
Lindsay, John, 358, 419, 474–75
Linenthal, Mark, 99, 105, 107, 108, 118, 331
Linscott, Robert N., 59, 85–86
Lipton, Eunice, 685
“Lipton’s Journal” (Mailer), 182–91, 206, 242, 497, 636
concept of “enormous present” in, 189–90
exploration of personas in, 189
idea of duality explored in, 183–84
on Lindner, 184–85
on Malaquais, 185
NM’s love for Adele expressed in, 188
on saint-psychopath duality, 187–88
as self-psychoanalysis, 183
sexual superiority of blacks examined in, 189
shared with Lindner, 185, 202
as source of NM’s Village Voice columns, 201
as source of “White Negro,” 189–90
Lish, Gordon, 512, 514, 611–12
Liston, Sonny, 315, 320, 321, 322, 337