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- The Actors Studio — New York actors' workshop famous for Method acting; it staged Mailer's play Strawhead in 1986, with his daughter Kate as Marilyn Monroe.
- American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters — Honorary society of American artists and writers; Mailer was inducted on 7 December 1984, taking chair 19, previously held by Tennessee Williams and Alexander Calder.
- Cannon Films — Film production company run by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus; it backed Mailer's directorial feature Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) and Godard's King Lear.
- Edinburgh International Writers' Conference, 1962 — The five-day conference (20–24 August 1962, McEwan Hall) organized by John Calder and Sonia Orwell within the Edinburgh International Festival; Mailer's first major literary appearance abroad, where he met Henry Miller and William Burroughs and clashed with Mary McCarthy and Lawrence Durrell over the future of the novel.
- Harry Ransom Center — The humanities research library and archive of the University of Texas at Austin, and the principal repository of the Norman Mailer Papers — Mailer's manuscripts, correspondence, and a large part of his personal library, acquired in 2005. It is the most frequently cited `manuscript-location` in this register.
- The MacDowell Colony — Artists' residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire; it awarded Mailer the Edward MacDowell Medal on 18 August 1973 for his body of work.
- Modern Language Association — The Modern Language Association; Mailer addressed its December 1965 Chicago meeting on the state of the American novel, a talk published in the March 1966 Commentary.
- National Book Awards — During National Book Awards week in March 1965, as An American Dream appeared, Mailer held forth at a series of press conferences, praising Saul Bellow's Herzog and grouping himself with the 'moral nihilists' wing' of contemporary writers.
- National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions — Popular Front–aligned U.S. cultural organization active in the late 1940s, best known today as the sponsor of the 25–27 March 1949 Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (the Waldorf Conference). Mailer twice spoke under its auspices — the 11 October 1948 academic-freedom rally (48.10) and the Waldorf Conference (49.1, 49.2a–c, 49.5) — and the NCASP published his Waldorf remarks.
- National Institute of Arts and Letters — The senior U.S. honor society for the arts (founded 1898), which on 25 May 1960 awarded Mailer a grant. In 1976 it merged with its smaller inner body, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to form what is now the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- Norman Mailer Center — A nonprofit organization established after Mailer's death to support writers and writing education (associated with the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at his Provincetown home). After his death in 2007, the part of Mailer's personal library not sent to the Ransom Center "was donated to the Norman Mailer Center and is now in storage."
- Norman Mailer Society — A scholarly organization devoted to the study of Norman Mailer's life and work. With the University of South Florida it jointly sponsors The Mailer Review, published annually since 2007, and it hosts an annual conference. Mailer scholars associated with this project — including Maggie McKinley (vice president c. 2017, later president) and J. Michael Lennon (chair of The Mailer Review's editorial board) — are members.
- PEN American Center — American branch of International PEN; Mailer was elected its president in 1984 (term 1984–1986) and presided over the 48th International PEN Congress in New York in January 1986.
- Theatre de Lys — Off-Broadway Greenwich Village house (later the Lucille Lortel Theatre) where Mailer's The Deer Park: A Play ran 31 January–21 May 1967 for 127 performances.
- Theatre for Ideas — A New York forum for intellectual panels and debates; Mailer spoke from the audience at its February 1966 Vietnam panel and later moderated the 1971 'Town Bloody Hall' dialogue on women's liberation.
- The Warren Commission — The presidential commission on the assassination of John F. Kennedy; its 1964 report is the target of Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, which Mailer reviewed in 1966, and a touchstone for his recurring interest in the assassination.