Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer: Poor Manager

A Boston Herald-American report on Mailer's Probate Court appearance in his divorce from Beverly Bentley, focused on his finances.

“Mailer: Poor Manager,” an article by Tom Sullivan and Harold Banks in the Boston Herald-American (25 January 1979), reporting Mailer’s appearance in Probate Court in Barnstable, Mass., in his divorce from Beverly Bentley, with attention to his finances: “My talent is to make money, not manage it.”

First published: 1979-01-25
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 79.2
Cite as: /works/1979-01-25-mailer-poor-manager
Last updated: 2026-06-05