Mailer Enjoys a Day in the Sun at MacDowell Colony
A New York Times report on the 18 August 1973 awarding of the Edward MacDowell Medal to Mailer, presented by John Leonard; his acceptance speech touched on a Watergate-novel idea and his birthday party.
“Mailer Enjoys a Day in the Sun at MacDowell Colony,” an unsigned article in the New York Times (20 August 1973), reports the 18 August awarding of the Edward MacDowell Medal to Mailer “in recognition of the tremendous body and wide variety of work he has published to date.” John Leonard presented the medal (with remarks by George Plimpton); Mailer’s captivating acceptance speech touched on an idea for a Watergate novel and on his fiftieth-birthday party. The speech is reprinted in part in 74.7, the preface to Some Honorable Men (76.5), and the foreword to The Time of Our Time (98.7).
Related pages
- The MacDowell Colony | John Leonard | George Plimpton | 1973
- Excerpts from Acceptance Speech (MacDowell Colony Report for 1973) (74.7) | Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (76.5) | The Time of Our Time (98.7)