Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer's Vast Archives to Be Housed in Texas

Lianne Hart's article-interview; Ransom Center director Thomas Staley calls the Mailer papers 'the Platonic conception of what an archive should be,' and Mailer says he chose the Center because it holds 'the greatest collection of literary archives to be found in America.'

Lianne Hart’s Los Angeles Times article-interview on the archive sale. Ransom Center director Thomas Staley describes the Mailer papers as “the Platonic conception of what an archive should be,” and Mailer says he decided to sell to the Ransom Center because it was “the greatest collection of literary archives to be found in America” (see 05.3, 05.4, 05.6, 05.9, 05.12, 05.13).

First published: 2005-05-01
Form: article-interview
Lennon & Lennon: 05.5
Cite as: /works/2005-05-01-vast-archives-texas
Last updated: 2026-06-08