Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Mind of an Outlaw

Mailer's watershed essay on the ordeal of writing and publishing The Deer Park — the Rinehart suppression and the agonized rewriting — published in Esquire just before Advertisements for Myself, into which it was folded as the "Fourth Advertisement for Myself."

“The Mind of an Outlaw.” Esquire, November 1959, 87–90, 92, 94.

A watershed essay on the struggle to publish The Deer Park (55.4) — its suppression by Rinehart and the last-draft rewriting that followed. The November Esquire appeared just before Advertisements for Myself (59.13).

Rpt: as “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park” in Advertisements for Myself (59.13); 76.14; 13.1.

First published: 1959-11
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 59.14
Cite as: /works/1959-11-mind-of-an-outlaw
Last updated: 2026-05-23