Earl and Lyndon: An Imaginary Conversation
Mailer's one-act imaginary conversation between Chief Justice Earl Warren and President Lyndon Johnson, shortly after the Kennedy assassination — his final contribution to Vanity Fair as writer-in-residence (April 1992).
“Earl and Lyndon: An Imaginary Conversation,” a one-act play, appeared in Vanity Fair in April 1992 (200–203, 260), illustrated by Philip Burke — a dialogue between Chief Justice Earl Warren and President Lyndon B. Johnson shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, of a piece with Mailer’s preoccupation that year with the Kennedy case (see “Footfalls in the Crypt,” 92.4). It was Mailer’s final contribution to Vanity Fair as writer-in-residence.
Related pages
- “Footfalls in the Crypt” (92.4)
- 1992
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