Norman Mailer
Mailer's entry in Max John Herzberg's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (T. Y. Crowell, 1962). For the 'Comments' section of his entry, Mailer provided the following statement: 'I think the writers who have meant the most to me in forming a style which I have always wished I had a little of in my own work are Stendhal, Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence.'
“Norman Mailer.” Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, edited by Max John Herzberg. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1962. Other.
For the “Comments” section of his entry, Mailer provided the following statement, with which Lennon’s Works and Days register characterizes the encyclopedia entry: “I think the writers who have meant the most to me in forming a style which I have always wished I had a little of in my own work are Stendhal, Tolstoy, and D. H. Lawrence.”
The three writers Mailer names here are the same three at the top of his “Ex Libris” reply six months earlier (62.12a, Christian Century, 11 July 1962), where the Reader’s Encyclopedia triumvirate is rounded out by Marx, Reich, Malraux, Sabatini, and Farnol.