The Author
Short profile of Mailer, with brief comments from him on characterization, early jobs, and the poverty of American letters — accompanying Maxwell Geismar's laudatory review of The Naked and the Dead in Saturday Review's 8 May 1948 issue, the first magazine cover story ever given to Mailer.
“The Author.” Article-interview by R.G. Saturday Review, 8 May 1948, 10.
Brief comments from Mailer “on problems of characterization, his early jobs, the poverty of American letters,” accompanying Maxwell Geismar’s “highly laudatory and influential review” of The Naked and the Dead. Saturday Review was the first magazine to give Mailer a cover story; the cover features a drawing of Mailer by Hal McIntosh, based on the jacket photograph of 48.2.
The profile is later quoted in Current Biography (48.8).