Norman Mailer: Works and Days

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.

First published: 1951
Form: other
Lennon & Lennon: 51.5
Cite as: /works/1951-warfel-american-novelists-entry
Last updated: 2026-04-23