Our Man at Harvard
Mailer's Esquire memoir of the Harvard Advocate in the spring of 1942; reprinted as the preface to First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate.
“Our Man at Harvard,” a memoir in Esquire (April 1977) of the Harvard Advocate in the spring of 1942 — the milieu of Mailer’s earliest published fiction and his Somerset Maugham party anecdote. Reprinted as the preface to First Flowering: The Best of the “Harvard Advocate” (Addison-Wesley); also in Pieces and Pontifications (82.16, where the acknowledgments wrongly date it to the 22 March Esquire) and The Time of Our Time (98.7, partial), complete in Mind of an Outlaw (13.1).
Related pages
- “Right Shoe on Left Foot” (42.1) | Harvard University | 1977
- The Greatest Thing in the World (41.1) | Preface to Fiction Writer's Handbook (75.14) | Twelfth Round: An Interview with Norman Mailer (83.10)
- Pieces and Pontifications (82.16) | The Time of Our Time (98.7) | The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1)