Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Lois Mayfield Wilson

Stanford graduate student when Mailer met her in the summer of 1949 during his Hollywood stay, and thereafter a lifelong friend and sometimes-intimate correspondent. Lennon records their final meeting in February 2007, in San Francisco, on Mailer's last book tour before his death later that year.

Lois Mayfield Wilson was a Stanford graduate student when Mailer met her in Hollywood in the summer of 1949. Lennon describes their relationship as life-long; more detail in Lennon’s Double Life (13.2) than in the Days RTF.

Lennon’s 2007 Days entry records their last meeting: “In February in San Francisco, he has his last meeting with Lois Mayfield Wilson, with whom he has been friendly for almost 60 years.”

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Last updated: 2026-04-22