Norman Mailer [entry in American Novelists of Today]
A 102-word Mailer statement on his plans for future work, embedded in Harry R. Warfel's reference volume American Novelists of Today (1951) — Mailer's second appearance in a standard American reference work after Current Biography (48.8).
“Norman Mailer.” In American Novelists of Today, by Harry R. Warfel, 276. New York: American Book Co., 1951.
Biographical entry containing Mailer’s 102-word statement on his plans for future work:
I have no concerted program. I would like to experiment and to grow, but I pursue this aim through no particular standards. Technique must always be secondary to the world one constructs in a novel.
Rpt: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.