Preface to Fiction Writer's Handbook
Mailer's preface to Hallie and Whit Burnett's Fiction Writer's Handbook, recalling the beginning of his writing career at Harvard under Theodore Morrison, Mark Schorer, Albert Guerard, and Robert Gorham Davis.
Mailer’s preface (pp. xvii–xxi) to Fiction Writer’s Handbook by Hallie and Whit Burnett (Harper and Row, 1975), in which he recalls the beginning of his writing career at Harvard under Theodore Morrison, Mark Schorer, Albert Guerard, Robert Gorham Davis, and a “Murray Kempton” — whom Mailer later clarified was “not our Murray.” A full transcription (rights cleared) is held at full text.
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- Robert Gorham Davis | Harvard University
- 1975
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