Norman Mailer Wins an Award
Jerry Tallmer's account of Mailer at the 12 March National Book Awards ceremony, where Armies of the Night won the arts-and-letters award (Miami and the Siege of Chicago was also nominated), with excerpts from his speech.
An article-interview by Jerry Tallmer — an account of Mailer at the 12 March National Book Awards ceremony at Philharmonic Hall. Nominated for two awards — The Armies of the Night (68.8) in arts and letters and Miami and the Siege of Chicago (68.25) in history and biography — Mailer won the former. The piece also reports Tallmer’s next-day conversation with Mailer on Nixon’s victory and moviemaking. The full text of Mailer’s speech is in Existential Errands (72.7) and The Essential Mailer (82.19).
Related pages
- 1969 | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | National Book Awards
- On Accepting the Pulitzer Prize (69.26) | Letter to John Hohenberg (74.20) | 'Three Cheers for Good Marks': Writers on Their Prizes (86.34)
- Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (68.25) | Existential Errands (72.7) | The Essential Mailer (82.19)