Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Robert Lindner

Psychoanalyst and author of The Fifty-Minute Hour (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1944), and a friend of Mailer's. Lindner died early in 1956; Mailer's "Quickly" column of 7 March 1956 (56.9) was a eulogy that quoted The Fifty-Minute Hour.

Robert Lindner, 1952

Robert Lindner, a friend of Mailer’s and the author of The Fifty-Minute Hour (New York: Rinehart, 1955), died early in 1956. Mailer’s “Quickly” column of 7 March 1956 (56.9) was a eulogy for him, with quotations from that book. The Mailer–Lindner correspondence was published for the first time in Lipton’s, A Marijuana Journal (2024).

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Last updated: 2026-05-23