Untitled comment in Attacks of Taste
Mailer's contribution to Attacks of Taste, an anthology of writers' recollections of adolescent reading; he names The Amateur Gentleman and Captain Blood as his high-school favorites.
An untitled comment in Attacks of Taste, edited by Evelyn B. Byrne and Otto M. Penzler (New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1971; limited edition of 500 copies), a volume collecting writers’ answers to a question about their adolescent reading. Mailer replied: “I’m afraid my favorite novels in high school were The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffrey Farnol and Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood.”