Palm Springs, California
Desert resort town in Riverside County, Southern California, east of Los Angeles. Setting of Mailer's June 1951 trip with Mickey Knox — the biographical seed for "Desert D'Or," the fictionalized Palm Springs of The Deer Park (1955).
Lennon’s 1951 Days entry: “In June, [Mailer] travels with his close friend, actor Mickey Knox to Palm Springs, California (the setting for The Deer Park).” The trip consolidates the Hollywood observation that had begun with the 1949 summer screenplay work for Samuel Goldwyn and pushes the Deer Park material into a more compressed, resort-bound frame.