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1981

In late June, writes the introduction for and helps arrange the publication by Random House of In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison by Jack Henry Abbott, who is released on parole in June after Mailer and several others in the literary community write letters to the parole board attesting to Abbott’s literary ability.
On 18 July, Abbott stabs to death Richard Adan, a 22-year old actor, in New York City. Abbott is subsequently convicted and sentenced for the crime. Mailer attends his trial, and is attacked by the media for his sponsorship of Abbott.
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1982

Pieces and Pontifications (82.16), ’s fifth miscellany, including 12 essays and 20 interviews, and edited by J. Michael Lennon, is published on 21 June.
A TV miniseries of The Executioner's Song (79.14), produced and directed by Schiller, airs in November. Mailer writes the screenplay.
Mailer: A Biography, by Hilary Mills, is published.
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1983

’s interview with Robert Begiebing (83.10), one of his three or four most important interviews, is published in Harvard Magazine. In it he discusses at length his years at Harvard, and also explains the origins of Ancient Evenings (83.18).
Preceded by advance excerpts in Playboy, Vogue and Paris Review, Ancient Evenings, set in Egypt 3,000 years ago during the reign of Ramses IX, is published on 4 April. Reviews are mixed but the novel climbs to number six on the New York Times bestseller list in mid-May.
In August, he moves from Little, Brown to Random House, the publisher of all of his future books. Jason Epstein becomes his editor for the next 20 years.
In late September, Mailer is nominated for an Emmy for his screenplay of The Executioner's Song. Tommy Lee Jones, who plays Gilmore, wins an Emmy for best actor.
In October, he purchases a home at 627 Commercial Street, Provincetown, where he will spend as much time as in Brooklyn from this point on.
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1984

visits Russia for the first time in March; returns with Norris in June.
In June, he receives an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Mercy College in White Plains, NY.
On 11 July, he is elected president of the PEN American Center for a two-year term.
Preceded by excerpts in Vanity Fair, Tough Guys Don't Dance (84.17), a murder mystery set in Provincetown, is published by Random House on 20 August. It also becomes a best seller and sells over a million paperback copies.
He is inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters on 7 December.
Begins work on his CIA novel, Harlot's Ghost (91.26).
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1986

Presides over the PEN International Congress meeting in New York, 12–18 January, attended by over a thousand writers from around the world. , who raises the bulk of the money to support the Congress, is criticized for inviting Secretary of State George P. Shultz to speak without consulting the board of PEN.
In the same month, “Strawhead” (86.25), a play adapted from Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15), is staged by the Actors Studio in New York with Kate Mailer as Marilyn Monroe.
From 14 October to 13 December, in Provincetown, he directs his own film script based on Tough Guys Don't Dance (84.17). It is produced for Cannon Films by Tom Luddy.
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1991

In March, accepts the position of writer-at-large at Vanity Fair.
In late October, Harlot's Ghost (91.26) is published after advance excerpts appear in nine publications, including Esquire, Playboy, Rolling Stone and Partisan Review.
On 13 November, he receives the New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit, and becomes New York State Author for a two-year term.
Begins work on Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (95.38). Norris leaves him after learning of his philandering, but they are reconciled after a few months.
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1992

covers the August Republican Convention and publishes his account in the 12 October New Republic.
He and Lawrence Schiller begin six months of research in the KGB archives in Minsk (then a part of the Soviet Union, now Belarus) on Lee Harvey Oswald, who lived there in 1961–62. This research will become the basis of Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (95.16).
Andrew Wylie becomes Mailer’s literary agent after the death of Scott Meredith.
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1993

Along with Susan Sontag, Gay Talese and Gore Vidal, takes part in a 15 February reading (which he also directs) of George Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2, the dream sequence of Man and Superman) at Carnegie Hall.
In June, he and Schiller interview Marina Oswald for five days in a Dallas Hotel.
In late July, his line drawings (later published in Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (03.17)), are shown at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.
In late November, gives the keynote address at the Third Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
Continues work on Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (95.16).
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1995

Preceded by excerpts in The New Yorker and New York Review of Books, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (95.16) is published on 12 May.
Mailer receives honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 27 May.
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography (95.38) is published on 15 October. It receives the worst reviews of any of his books save Barbary Shore (51.1), many of them written by art critics.
Begins work on The Gospel According to the Son (97.13), a retelling of the New Testament as told by Jesus.
File:1995 NM in Austria.jpg|Norman Mailer in Austria, 1995. Photo by Norris Church Mailer.
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1997

’s article on the 1996 campaign appears in the January issue of George.
In the spring, begins work on The Time of Our Time (98.7), a massive anthology of excerpts from his work arranged not by date of publication or composition, but according to the dates of events depicted. Preceded by serial publication (19 parts) in the New York Daily News (then edited by his friend Pete Hamill), The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) is published on 18 September. Reviews are mixed.
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1998

On 6 May, 50 years to the day after the publication of The Naked and the Dead (48.2), ’s anthology of his work, The Time of Our Time (98.7), is published and receives a warm reception.
The publication party, also a celebration of Mailer’s recent 75th birthday, gathers a large crowd at the Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Center, including William Styron, George Plimpton, Kurt Vonnegut, Lillian Ross, all of his family, and a surprise guest, Muhammad Ali.
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1999

’s memories of his ten months in Paris, 1947–48, are published as “Postwar Paris: Chronicles of Literary Life” (99.2) in the spring number of Paris Review.
In the annual issue of Provincetown Arts magazine, Mailer discusses at length Provincetown and what it has meant to him with the magazine’s publisher, Christopher Busa, a friend and neighbor (99.5).
Begins research on a novel about Hitler, triggered by a reading of Ron Rosenbaum’s 1998 book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of his Evil.
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2000

Norris learns she has intestinal cancer and undergoes the first of several operations. is beset with various health problems: angina, arthritis, macular degeneration, hearing loss and a hip replacement.
In July, he completes a teleplay based on an account of the trial of O.J. Simpson, American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense by Lawrence Schiller and James Willworth.
Begins writing his Hitler novel, The Castle in the Forest (07.10).
Tom Wolfe responds to negative reviews of his 1998 novel, A Man in Full, by Mailer, John Updike, and John Irving in a long essay, published in his 2000 collection, Hooking Up; the trio of detractors responds sharply.
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2001

At the invitation of John Irving, , Norris and George Plimpton perform a staged reading of Zelda, Scott and Ernest in Manchester, VT. The play, written by Plimpton and Tom Quinn, is drawn entirely from the correspondence of Ernest Hemingway (played by Mailer), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Plimpton), and Zelda Fitzgerald (Norris). Over the next two years the trio will give over a dozen performances in the U.S. and Europe.
He responds to the 9/11 tragedy with a series of interviews and essays, including one in the Times of London on 13 September.
Between performances of the play, Mailer and Schiller travel together and research the story of F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen, who is arrested and convicted of spying for the Russians.
Mailer’s teleplay is completed in November and broadcast on CBS the same month. Schiller transforms the teleplay into a narrative, Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen (02.7), which is published the following year.
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2002

Mailer begins work on a collection, The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing (03.7), consisting of excerpts from his essays, interviews and other works on the publishing world, the psychology of the writerly life, and literary techniques, with an emphasis on the role of the unconscious.
In February, Jack Abbott commits suicide in prison. Mailer issues a statement saying that Abbott's life "was tragic from beginning to end".
In October, Gore Vidal and Mailer reprise Don Juan in Hell, joined by Norris and Lennon, in a benefit for the Provincetown Theater. Vidal, as the Devil, steals the show, and Mailer says his old friend was "almost as good as Charles Laughton in the role".
In December he caps a year of comment on the causes and effects of 9/11 with a long conversation on the topic with another old friend, Dotson Rader, published in the (London) Sunday Times Magazine.
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2003

The Spooky Art (03.7), edited by Lennon, is published on ’s 80th birthday, and receives a warm reception, the review of Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times being the largest exception. Mailer writes to the publisher of the Times to complain about how her negative reviews of five consecutive books have appeared earlier than almost all other reviews, thus creating a negative atmosphere.
Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (03.17) is published in early spring, and on 7 April, Why Are We at War? (03.18) a collection of his fulminations against the Iraq War and the presidency of George W. Bush, is published.
In June, he and Lennon begin taping a series of ten conversations about his spiritual beliefs that will later be published as On God: An Uncommon Conversation (07.39).
Following the first meeting of the Norman Mailer Society in Brooklyn, Mailer and Norris entertain all attending at his Brooklyn Heights Apartment.
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2004

does two interviews (one in New York and the other in Playboy) with his son John Buffalo on politics, protest, marijuana and the Clinton-Lewinsky affairs, among other topics; these will become the basis for their jointly written 2006 book, The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America (06.2).
In August, Letters on An American Dream, 1963-69 (04.7), a collection of 76 letters concerning Mailer’s fourth novel, edited by Lennon, is published.
His interview with Richard Stratton, a friend since the early 1970s, concerning his views on marijuana, perhaps his most extensive comment on the topic, appears in the November-December issue of High Times.
Now living full-time in Provincetown, Mailer continues work on The Castle in the Forest (07.10), and hosts Texas hold 'em poker games several nights a week.
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2005

In April, sells his 500-cubic-foot archive, including approximately 50,000 of his letters, to the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, for $2.5 million. Later that month, he attends a conference at the University titled “Norman Mailer Takes on America.”
On 8 September, Mailer undergoes a successful quadruple bypass operation at Mass General in Boston. On 16 November, he is awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation.
Norman Mailer’s Provincetown: The Wild West of the East (05.15), a pamphlet containing excerpts from his work about Provincetown, including his favorite poem, “The Harbors of the Moon,” is published by Provincetown Arts Press.
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2006

On 24 January, The Big Empty (06.2) is published. It is warmly, but not widely reviewed.
In the spring, submits the manuscript of The Castle in the Forest (07.10) to his new editor at Random House, David Ebershoff, who replaces Jason Epstein after his retirement.
On 4 May, Judith McNally, Mailer’s secretary for nearly three decades, dies. Mailer’s health worsens, and his weight loss concerns his family and doctors. Two of his old friends die, Styron on 1 November, and Robert F. Lucid on 12 December. Mailer speaks at a Boston memorial for Styron on 14 December.
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2007

On 23 January, The Castle in the Forest (07.10) is published. Reviewed widely and with much praise, it becomes ’s 11th best seller. He remains the only postwar American author to have one or more best sellers in each of seven consecutive decades.
Accompanied by John Buffalo, he goes on a book tour in the winter and early spring. In February in San Francisco, he has his last meeting with Lois Mayfield Wilson, a former lover with whom he has been friendly for almost 60 years.
The final manuscript of On God: An Uncommon Conversation (07.39) is submitted in late spring. On 27 June, he appears with Günter Grass and Andrew O’Hagan at the New York Public Library, and tells the audience that this will probably be his last public appearance, but on 22 July, he has one more outing, taking part in a discussion about his films at Lincoln Center with film critic Michael Chaiken and others.
The summer number of Paris Review contains a long interview with him conducted by Andrew O’Hagan (07.31).
In October, the first issue of the Mailer Review, edited by Phillip Sipiora, and sponsored by the Mailer Society and the University of South Florida, is published.
On 3 October, enters Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York where he has surgery for a collapsed lung. A series of infections and complications ensue. Mailer dies at 4:28 a.m. on 10 November, and is buried in Provincetown a few days later.
On God is published on 16 November; an excerpt is published in New York with Mailer’s photograph on the cover. The book is overlooked in the wave of commentary following Mailer’s death, and receives few reviews.
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2008

On 9 April, a memorial service, “The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer,” is held at Carnegie Hall, with Charlie Rose as the master of ceremonies. All of ’s children, his sister, nephew, and many friends and relatives speak at the event.
On 30 June, Blue Night: Photographs by George Hirose, is published by Provincetown Arts Press. It contains fifty-two photographs of Provincetown shot at night with long exposures, and Mailer’s introduction (08.2), which is one of the last things he writes before his death.
On 6 October, “In the Ring: Grappling with the Twentieth Century” is published in New Yorker (08.1). It consists of thirty-eight letters from Mailer to various correspondents from 1945–1988. Eighteen of the letters are later collected in Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (14.3).
In November, the 2008 double issue of the Mailer Review appears. It contains the statements made by 25 individuals, members of Mailer's family and his friends, at the 9 April 2008 memorial program for Mailer at Carnegie Hall, sponsored by Mailer's publisher, Random House, and produced by Norris Church Mailer, Lawrence Schiller, Carol Schneider, and J. Michael Lennon. Mailer is quoted innumerable times in these eulogies, and in many others collected in this volume.
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2009

“A Man of Letters” is published in the January issue of Playboy (09.1). It consists of 28 letters, 1952–2008, from to 23 different individuals, including Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Lillian Ross and Gordon Lish. Twenty-four of the letters are reprinted in Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (14.3). Fifteen letters from Mailer to various correspondents are published in three issues of the NYRB (12 February, 26 February, and 12 March). All 15 are later reprinted in Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. 
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2010

On 26 January, Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship (10.1), by Dwayne Raymond, is published by HarperCollins. This memoir of ’s last days in Provincetown is by his assistant from 2003 to Mailer’s death in 2007. Contains many quotations from Mailer and a detailed depiction of his domestic and professional life during his final years.
On 10 April, A Ticket to the Circus (10.2) by Norris Church Mailer is published by Random House. This memoir by Mailer’s sixth wife, to whom he was married for 27 years, includes numerous remembered words from her husband, and several of his love letters to her.
On 1 June, Norman Mailer: Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 (10.3), edited by J. Michael Lennon, is published by Taschen Books. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller with an introduction by Colum McCann, this abridged version of Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1), contains hundreds of photographs and maps from NASA, magazine archives and private collections.
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2011

On 12 December, Taschen Books publishes an abridged version of Marilyn, ’s 1973 biography. Norman Mailer/Bert Stern/Marilyn Monroe was conceived by Lawrence Schiller using photographs by Bert Stern, and an abridged text edited by J. Michael Lennon.
In November “Norris Mailer: A Life in Words” is published in the Mailer Review. The first 166 pages of this issue are devoted to remembrances of Norris Church Mailer, who died on 21 November 2010, including many words from her husband.
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2013

On 15 October, The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1), edited by Phillip Sipiora, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem, is published by Random House. It contains forty-nine of ’s most important essays, 1948–2006, including one previously unpublished: “Freud,” a four-page reflection from the mid-1950s.
On 15 October, Norman Mailer: A Double Life (13.2), by J. Michael Lennon, is published by Simon and Schuster. This authorized biography contains extensive quotations from Mailer’s unpublished letters, interviews with him, and with 85 others—his family, friends, and literary associates.
In November, “Love-Buds” (13.3), a previously unpublished short story written by Mailer in his senior year in college, is published in the Mailer Review.
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2014

On 2 December, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (14.3), edited by J. Michael Lennon, published by Random House, 2 December. Contains seven hundred and fourteen letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximately 50,000 wrote over his lifetime.
On 5 December, Norman Mailer: JFK, Superman Comes to the Supermarket (14.4), edited by Nina Weiner, is published by Taschen Books. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller. Art Direction by Josh Baker. Introduction by J. Michael Lennon. Contains Mailer’s 1960 report on the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, his essay on Jacqueline Kennedy, and over 300 photographs of JFK’s 1960 presidential campaign.
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41.1

Written for ’s sophomore writing class, English
1-A, taught by Robert Gorham David, who encouraged him to
submit it to Story magazine’s eighth annual college contest under the
name Norman K[ingsley]. Mailer. It
won the first prize of $100. Mailer
ceased using his middle initial and
name after college, although he
employed it once for his 1971 movie,
Maidstone: A Mystery (71.28), in
which the director-hero is called
Norman T. Kingsley. 
Rpt: Story 19
(November–December), 17–26; Hold Your Breath: Suspense Stories, edited
by Alfred Hitchcock. New York: Dell
(no. 260), 1947; Story: The Fiction of the Forties, edited by Whit Burnett
and Hallie Burnett. New York: E.P.
Dutton, 1949; 59.13 (preceded by an introductory “advertisement”), 67.11,
82.19. See 75.14, 77.2, 83.10, 89.10, and
the editorial in Harvard Crimson,
21 April, 2, the first published
critical (and favorable) comment
on Mailer’s work. See also 13.2. 
Mailer:
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42.2

=====“Maybe Next Year.” Harvard Advocate, June, 25-27. Story.=====
When Mailer reprinted it in Advertisements for Myself (59.13), he noted that "the prose is Salinger-ish, but the inspiration was by Faulkner". Rpt: The Harvard Advocate Anthology, edited by Donald Hall. New York: Twayne, 1950; 59.13, 67.11, 82.19.
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44.1

====“A Calculus at Heaven.” In Cross-Section: A Collection of New American Writing, edited by Edwin Seaver, 317–353. New York: L.B. Fischer, April.====
Novella of Pacific combat, written for Robert Hillyer’s English A-5 class in ’s senior year at Harvard. Mailer says in Advertisements for Myself (59.13) that it “does make an interesting contrast” to The Naked and the Dead (48.2). Original working title: “The Foundation,” drawn from a line in André Malraux’s Man's Fate: “All that men are willing to die for, beyond self-interest, tends . . . to justify that fate by giving it a foundation in dignity.” Mailer’s first book appearance. 
Rpt: An excerpt titled “The Captain,” in The Artesian, with Mailer, bearded on the front cover. This quarterly was published in Ann Arbor, Mich., where John W. Aldridge, presumably, made the arrangement for publication. Aldridge, then a close friend of Mailer’s, taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; 59.13, 67.11, 82.19.
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48.1

"The Naked and the Dead". In Cross-Section: A Collection of New American Writing, edited by Edwin Seaver, 392-420. New York: Simon and Schuster, March. Advance excerpt from The Naked and the Dead (48.2). Rpt: Appearing about a month before the novel, this excerpt (with minor variations) is the greater part of chapter 5, part 1, a description of dragging the anti-tank guns through the jungle and the following firefight at the river, an excerpt reprinted countless times in anthologies of war writing. Noted as "work in progress" on dustwrapper; 98.7 (partial). See Seaver's recollections of Cross-Section and Mailer in his memoir, So Far So Good: Recollections of a Life in Publishing (Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill, 1986). See also Mailer's comments on Seaver in Advertisements For Myself (59.13), 28–29.
File:48-1.jpg|Cover of Cross-Section, March 1948.
File:48-1a.jpg|Cover of Seaver's So Far, So Good, 1986.
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48.10

“Political Freedom for Teachers Urged.” Article by unidentified writer. New York Times, 11 October, 25. At a New York rally under the auspices of the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions to hear appeals for the preservation of political freedom in education, Mailer, W.E.B. DuBois and Harlow Shapley were among the speakers. Mailer: “It is a truism that fascism cannot come to America if our colleges and universities remain free.” An advertisement for this event appeared in the New York Star, 5 October 1948, and listed Mailer first among the announced speakers, followed by F.O. Matthiessen, Shirley Graham, Louis Untermeyer, Howard Fast, and Philip Van Doren.
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