Key Texts for Mailer Studies
The books integral to the study of Norman Mailer, from Barry H. Leeds's The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer (1969) to the present, in order of publication.
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The books integral to the study of Norman Mailer, in order of publication: the critical studies, the collections of criticism, the biographies, and the bibliographies and editions that the rest of the field stands on.
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1960s
- Kaufmann, Donald. Norman Mailer: The Countdown (The First Twenty Years). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. register
- Leeds, Barry H. The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: NYU Press, 1969. full text register
1970s
- Lucid, Robert F., editor. Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work. Boston: Little Brown, 1971. register
- Braudy, Leo, editor. Norman Mailer: a Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972. register
- Poirier, Richard. Norman Mailer. New York: Viking Press, 1972. register
- Solotaroff, Robert. Down Mailer's Way. Urbana; London: University of Illinois Press, 1973. register
- Adams, Laura, editor. Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Port Washington; London: Kennikat Press, 1974. register
- Adams, Laura. Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1974. register
- Radford, Jean. Norman Mailer: A Critical Study. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. register
- Adams, Laura. Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer. Athens: Ohio UP, 1976. register
- Bufithis, Philip H. Norman Mailer. New York: Ungar, 1978. register
- Merrill, Robert. Norman Mailer. New York: Twayne, 1978. register
1980s
- Begiebing, Robert J. Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer. Columbia; London: University of Missouri Press, 1980. register
- Gordon, Andrew. An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer. London: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1980. register
- Mills, Hilary. Mailer: A Biography. Empire Books, 1982-11. register
- Manso, Peter. Mailer: His Life and Times. Simon and Schuster, 1985. register
- Bloom, Harold, editor. Norman Mailer. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1986. register
- Lennon, J. Michael, editor. Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986. register
- Mailer, Norman. Conversations with Norman Mailer. University Press of Mississippi, 1988-07-31. register
- Begiebing, Robert J. Toward a New Synthesis: John Fowles, John Gardner, and Norman Mailer. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1989. register
1990s
- Leigh, Nigel. Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1990. register
- Rollyson, Carl. The Lives of Norman Mailer. Paragon House, 1991-10. register
- Merrill, Robert. Norman Mailer Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1992. register
- Glenday, Michael. Norman Mailer. London: Macmillan, 1995. register
- Dearborn, Mary V. Mailer: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1999-12-09. register
2000s
- Dickstein, Morris. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard UP, 2002. register
- Leeds, Barry H. The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer. Bainbridge Island, Wash.: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2002. register
- Bloom, Harold, editor. Norman Mailer. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003. register
2010s
- Lennon, J. Michael. Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013-10-15. register
- Mailer, Norman, editor. Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. New York: Random House, 2014-12-02. register
- Bailey, Jennifer. Norman Mailer Quick-Change Artist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. register
- Wenke, Joseph. Mailer's America. Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England for University of Connecticut, 2014, 198–203. register
- Schultz, Kevin. Buckley and Mailer: the Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. register
- McKinley, Maggie. Understanding Norman Mailer. University of South Carolina Press, 2017-11-06. register
- Bozung, Justin, editor. The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. register
- Lennon, J. Michael; Lennon, Donna Pedro. “Norman Mailer: Works and Days (revised edition).” Revised and expanded edition, 2018. register
2020s
- McKinley, Maggie, editor. Norman Mailer in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2021-08-26. register
- Begiebing, Robert J. Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations. Louisiana State University Press, 2022-11-23. register