Elizabeth Hardwick

American critic, novelist, and co-founder of the New York Review of Books; her negative review "Bad Boy" (Partisan Review, 1965) was a leading attack on An American Dream.

Elizabeth Hardwick, the American critic and novelist and a co-founder of the New York Review of Books, reviewed An American Dream negatively in “Bad Boy” (Partisan Review, 1965). Mailer answered by paying to reprint Aldridge‘s positive Life review in the same magazine (65.9).