Norman Mailer: Works and Days

In Clay's Corner

Mailer's 240-word symposium contribution on Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)'s refusal to be drafted; reprinted as "An Appreciation of Cassius Clay."

A symposium contribution (240 words) in which Mailer, Frank Conroy, Nat Hentoff, John Hollander, Robert Lowell, and Richard Poirier comment on the refusal of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) to be drafted into the U.S. Army. Rpt: as “An Appreciation of Cassius Clay” in 72.7, 82.19.

First published: 1967
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 67.12
Cite as: /works/1967-in-clays-corner
Last updated: 2026-05-30