Mailer Book Was the 2nd Choice of Fiction Advisory Panel
Herbert Mitgang's Chicago Tribune piece on Mailer's Pulitzer for The Executioner's Song; 'Now I can go around quoting my favorite line from Voltaire.'
“Mailer Book Was the 2nd Choice of Fiction Advisory Panel,” an article-interview by Herbert Mitgang in the Chicago Tribune (15 April 1980), on Mailer’s pleasure at winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Executioner’s Song (79.14): “Now I can go around quoting my favorite line from Voltaire — ‘Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.’”