Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer Calls Nixon a Dickens 'Heep' Creep

Betty Jones repeats Mailer's Nixon-as-Uriah-Heep remarks and quotes him saying he is 'hardly one of the martyrs of the movement.'

“Mailer Calls Nixon a Dickens ‘Heep’ Creep,” an article by Betty Jones (Washington Daily News, 6 May 1970), repeats Mailer’s comments about Nixon and Uriah Heep from 70.8 and adds his remark: “It is routine for anyone in the peace movement to spend time in prison. I am hardly one of the martyrs of the movement.”

First published: 1970-05-06
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 70.9
Cite as: /works/1970-05-06-dickens-heep-creep
Last updated: 2026-05-31