Norman Mailer: Works and Days

An Unprofessional Eye . . . Docket No. 15883

Benjamin DeMott's article in the spring 1961 American Scholar — an extended treatment of the stabbing of Adele Morales, citing quotations from the court records found nowhere else in the contemporaneous record.

“An Unprofessional Eye … Docket No. 15883.” Article by Benjamin DeMott. American Scholar 30.2 (spring 1961), 232–37.

DeMott’s piece in the American Scholar contains quotations from the court records on Mailer’s stabbing of Adele Morales that are found nowhere else in the contemporaneous coverage. The docket number in DeMott’s title is the indictment record.

First published: 1961
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 61.3c
Cite as: /works/1961-spring-unprofessional-eye-docket-15883
Last updated: 2026-05-26