Norman Mailer: Works and Days

John Leonard

American critic and editor of the New York Times Book Review; he presented Mailer the Edward MacDowell Medal in August 1973 and wrote the introduction to the hardcover St. George and the Godfather.

John Leonard, the American critic and editor of the New York Times Book Review, was a sympathetic reader of Mailer in the early 1970s. His Book Review essay “Happy Birthday, Norman Mailer!” (18 February 1973) prompted Mailer’s reply “The Morning After” (73.10); he wrote the introduction to the hardcover St. George and the Godfather; and he presented Mailer with the Edward MacDowell Medal at Peterborough on 18 August 1973 (73.35).

Stub created during the 1973 ingest.

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