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1951

Having been introduced to Adele Morales (by Daniel Wolf, a close friend) during a visit to New York City, Mailer separates from Bea in the winter, and begins living with Adele in New York, first at 85 Monroe Street (March through June), then in a sub-let at 409 East 64th Street (through mid-July), and finally at 14 Pitt Street (September 1951 to June 1952).
He also makes a quick trip to Palm Springs, CA (the setting for The Deer Park (55.4)) and Hollywood with Mickey Knox in June, and spends July and August in Provincetown.
Bea and Susan move to Mexico.
Barbary Shore (51.1) is published on 24 May and receives nearly all negative reviews, including one in Time by Max Gissen, who labels the novel "paceless, tasteless and graceless", a line Mailer never forgets. The novel does make the best seller list for three weeks, however.
Meets William Styron, and they become friends.
Shortly after Barbary Shore is published, Mailer is introduced to James Jones by Vance Bourjaily, and they become friends immediately.
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1952

Mailer and Bea divorce in late January.
Begins work on The Deer Park (55.4).
In February, he rents a studio in the Ovington Building on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, which he maintains for several years. He is amazed to learn that the Russian spy, Col. Rudolph Abel (exchanged for U-2 pilot Gary Powers in 1962), has an office in the same building.
In October, he moves to a sixth floor walkup at 41 First Avenue, where he installs his own plumbing. Meets Gore Vidal at Millicent Brower's New York apartment.
He also makes his first trip to Mexico to see his daughter Susan in the fall, stopping to see "Fig" Gwaltney in Arkansas.
He begins writing short stories, and publishes five in 1952-53.
File:1952 NM.jpg|Mailer in 1952.
File:1952 Fan, Susan, NM.jpg|With Fan and Susan (1952).
File:1952 Mickey Knox, Adele Mailer, James Jones, NM.jpg|With Mickey Knox, Adele Mailer, and James Jones (1952).
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1954

published his first piece, “The Meaning of ‘Western Defense (54.1), in Dissent, and joins its editorial board, remaining on it until the 1980s.
In the spring, completes The Deer Park (55.4).
Marries Adele on 19 April at City Hall in New York.
Visits Susan and Bea in Mexico, June through October, again stopping to visit Gwaltney in Arkansas. Upon their return to New York City in November, they move into a duplex at 320 East 55th Street.
In the same month, with publication less than three months away, Rinehart stops publication of The Deer Park because of six lines describing fellatio. The novel is subsequently rejected by six publishers before being accepted by G.P. Putnam's Sons in early 1955.
On December 1, he begins keeping a journal titled “Lipton’s,” an introspective marijuana journal that runs to 110,000 words.
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1955

On March 4, he makes last entry in “Lipton’s.”
11 April, Peter born to ’s sister, Barbara, then married to Larry Alson.
The Deer Park (55.4) is published on 14 October, and on 13 November climbs to number six on the New York Times bestseller list.
With Edwin Fancher and Daniel Wolf, Mailer founds The Village Voice, investing $10,000, and giving the paper its name. He also contributes a weekly column. The Voice’s first issue is published on 26 October. For a time he is circulation manager of the Voice.
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1956

publishes 17 weekly columns in the Voice, the first 14 titled "Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers" (56.1–56.17, and the last three, "The Hip and the Square", from 11 January through 2 May, at which point he resigns from active participation because of editorial differences with his partners. He ends his contribution to the paper with an essay strongly affirming the merits of Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot.
In early May, "The Man Who Studied Yoga" (56.25), which Mailer conceived as the preface to a series of eight linked novels, is published in New Short Novels 2.
The Mailers spend the summer in Europe, visiting Spain, Germany (touring Buchenwald), Italy and Paris, where they are introduced to James Baldwin by Jean Malaquais.
In the fall, they move to Bridgewater, CT, buying a house near the home of William Styron. They also spend time with an English professor, John W. Aldridge, who becomes one of Mailer's most consistent critical supporters. Mailer begins to learn how to box from his father-in-law, Al Morales, a former professional boxer. Builds an orgone box, based roughly on the design of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, whose theories of sexual energy influence him.
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1958

After a bitter fallout with Styron and growing boredom with country living, The Mailers move back to New York, renting an apartment at 73 Perry Street in Greenwich Village.
In the fall, Mailer spends a week lecturing at the University of Chicago, where he meets a graduate student, Robert F. Lucid, who becomes his archivist and lifelong friend.
He is invited to join the Actors' Studio (Playwright and Directors Unit) in New York City, where staged readings of his play are performed.
Late in the year Mailer's sister Barbara begins doing secretarial work for him, which she will continue intermittently for a few years. Following her will be a chain of secretaries to handle his professional activities, and his overlapping personal life.
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1959

Elizabeth Anne (“Betsy”) born to Adele 28 September.
On 6 November, Putnam's publishes Advertisements for Myself (59.13), an omnibus volume containing new and previously published work, including The White Negro (57.1), critical assessments of his contemporaries, and "The Mind of an Outlaw" (59.14), his essay on the struggle to write and publish The Deer Park (55.4). Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books publishes The White Negro (59.8a) in pamphlet form.
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1960

On 25 May, Mailer receives a $1,500 award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
In July, covers the Democratic National Convention at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles for Esquire, and publishes "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" (60.9), an admiring portrait of J.F.K., in the November issue. The essay is generally seen as one of foundation stones of the New Journalism.
In September, the Mailers move to an apartment at 250 West 94th Street.
On 20 November, after a party in this apartment where he planned to announce his candidacy for mayor of New York, a drunken Mailer stabs Adele with a penknife after an early morning argument, and is committed for psychiatric observation to the violent ward of Bellevue Hospital for 17 days, 22 November to 8 December.
File:1955 Adele and NM.jpg|Adele and NM in felony court Dec. 29, 1960.
File:1960 Barbara and Norman.jpg|Barbara and NM, 1962.
File:1962.jpg|Mailer in 1962.
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1961

On 9 March, Mailer pleads guilty to assault charges, and later that month he separates from Adele.
During that same month, meets Lady Jeanne Campbell at Gore Vidal's New York apartment. On 13 November, receives a suspended sentence for felonious assault and is placed on probation for three years.
File:1959 Campbell.jpg|Lady Jeanne Campbell, 1959.
File:1961 Adele NM.jpg|Adele and Mailer, 1960.
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1962

Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3), Mailer's first poetry collection, is published on 30 January. Many of the poems were written on scraps of paper when Mailer was drinking, which he did a lot of in 1961–62.
In late February, divorces Adele in Juarez, Mexico.
On 4 May, marries Jeanne Campbell, and in late spring they move into 142 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, a four-story brownstone he had purchased in 1960 and renovated. Mailer lives there continuously until his death, except for his sojourns in Provincetown, where he spent the majority of his time in the last decade of his life.
Kate Cailean born to Jeanne on 18 August.
Attends the International Writers' Conference in Edinburgh, 20-24 August, where he meets Henry Miller and William Burroughs.
On 25 September, covers the Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson fight in Chicago, and writes his first boxing essay, "Ten Thousand Words a Minute" (63.3), in Esquire.
In November, begins a column on politics and culture, “The Big Bite” (63.2–63.13), in Esquire (through December 1963), and a bi-monthly column, “Responses and Reactions” (63.16–63.20), devoted mainly to commentary on Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim, in the December Commentary (through October 1963).
In late fall, separates from Jeanne Campbell.
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1963

On March 10, he is introduced to actress Beverly Bentley by his boxing friend Roger Donoghue at P.J. Clarke’s restaurant in New York. He marries her on 29 December in his Brooklyn apartment, after divorcing Jeanne Campbell in Juarez, Mexico on 16 December.
His second miscellany, The Presidential Papers (63.37), ostensibly advice for President Kennedy, is published on 8 November. The photo on the back of the dust jacket shows Mailer sitting in a J.F.K.-style rocking chair. It was designed before the assassination, and the chair was airbrushed out when the same photo is used on the cover of the 1964 Bantam paperback edition. 
Begins writing a serial novel for Esquire, titled An American Dream (65.7), in which J.F.K. is a minor character.
In 1963, he publishes more than thirty pieces (poems, book reviews, essays, interviews, columns, letters, debates and a short story) in a dozen different places, the beginning of a periodical blizzard that continues unabated until the mid-1970s. Scott Meredith becomes his literary agent in the fall, and successfully negotiates the sale of An American Dream to Dial Press, and the movie rights to MGM.
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1965

In January, testifies on behalf of William Burroughs's novel, Naked Lunch, at its Boston obscenity trial.
An American Dream (65.7) (revised) is published on 15 March by Dial Press, where E. L. Doctorow is one of his editors.
Following José Torres’s defeat of Willie Pastrano for the light heavyweight boxing championship on 30 March, Mailer hosts the victory party for him at his Brooklyn Heights apartment. They become lifelong friends and in 1971 Mailer write a preface to Torres’s biography of Muhammad Ali, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story.
Travels to Alaska in April, where he addresses the Alaskan legislature, speaks at the University of Alaska, and flies over Mt. McKinley in a small plane. His 1967 novel, Why Are We in Vietnam? (67.15) is based on his experiences in Alaska.
On 21 May, speaks against the Vietnam War at the Berkeley campus of the University of California before an audience of over 10,000. In December, he gives a lecture on the state of the novel in the U.S. before a large audience at the Modern Language Association conference at the Palmer House in Chicago.
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1966

Stephen McLeod born to Beverly on 10 March.
In June, purchases a house in Provincetown, 565 Commercial Street, where he will live with Beverly and their children until 1969.
Cannibals and Christians (66.11), his third miscellany, is published on 29 August. The dedication reads: “To Lyndon B. Johnson, whose name inspired young men to cheer for me in public.” He speaks at several anti-Vietnam War rallies this year.
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1967

The Deer Park: A Play (67.13) opens at Theatre de Lys in New York on 31 January; it closes 21 May after 127 performances. underwrites the production and loses money. The cast includes his wife Beverly, ex-wife Adele, Rip Torn and his old friend, actor Mickey Knox.
On 24 May, he is inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letter. Publishes four books: The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (67.11) which contains 19 stories written from 1940 to 1962 (11 May); The Deer Park: A Play (7 August); Why Are We in Vietnam? (67.15) (15 September); The Bullfight (67.20), a portrait of Mexican bullfighter Amado Ramirez, known as “El Loco” (mid-November); makes two experimental films, Wild 90 and Beyond the Law, co-produced by his close friend, Buzz Farbar.
On 21 October, he takes part in an anti-war protest at the Pentagon, along with Robert Lowell, Noam Chomsky and Dwight Macdonald. Why Are We in Vietnam? is nominated for the National Book Award.
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1968

Wild 90 premieres 7 January, and Beyond the Law 2 April.
Preceded by magazine publication (Part I in Harper’s and Part II in Commentary), The Armies of the Night (68.8) is published by New American Library on 6 May, 20 years to the day after The Naked and the Dead (48.2). His account receives almost unanimously favorable and enthusiastic reviews, including a front page review by Alfred Kazin in the New York Times Book Review on 5 May.
In July, makes his third experimental film, Maidstone, on Long Island. plays a famous director, Norman T. Kingsley, and Rip Torn plays his half-brother Raoul. After formal photography is over, Raoul-Torn attacks Kingsley-Mailer with a hammer and they fight. After the recriminations melt, Mailer uses the attack, which was filmed, as the conclusion of the film.
In August, covers the national political conventions, and publishes his account, Miami and the Siege of Chicago (68.25), first in Harper’s and then in book form on 24 October.
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1969

The Armies of the Night (68.8) wins several awards: National Book Award in arts and letters (12 March); George Polk Memorial Award for magazine reporting (27 March); Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction (5 May). In addition, Miami and the Siege of Chicago (68.25) is a finalist for the National Book Award in the history and biography category.
On 1 May, announces his candidacy for mayor of New York (with journalist Jimmy Breslin as his running mate). He tells the media, “I will probably be in politics for the rest of my life. I mean it.” He comes in fourth in a field of five in the Democratic primary; Robert Wagner wins, only to lose to Independent Party candidate John Lindsay in the general election.
Awarded honorary Doctor of Letters by Rutgers University on 4 June. Also in June, running as an “insurgent” candidate for the Harvard Board of Overseers, he is defeated in an alumni election.
In July, he begins coverage of the Apollo 11 mission for Life, traveling to Texas, Alabama and Florida, and interviewing the astronauts and NASA officials.
In August, Running Against the Machine (69.80), a collection of documents and interviews concerning the mayoral campaign, and edited by Peter Manso, is published.
He separates from Beverly Bentley in late summer, and begins living with jazz singer Carol Stevens.
The first book-length critical studies of Mailer’s work are published: Donald L. Kaufmann’s Norman Mailer: The Countdown; and Barry H. Leeds’s The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer.
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1970

In January, testifies at the trial of the “Chicago Seven.”
On 18 April, is awarded Harvard University's Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts.
In early May, he serves a two-day sentence for his 1967 conviction for transgressing a police line at the Pentagon. Also in May, Managing Mailer (70.7), an account of the Mailer-Breslin campaign by Joe Flaherty, Mailer’s campaign manager, is published.
He summers in Maine with five of his children and Carol Stevens, the first of several August sojourns there.
In August, Maidstone is shown at the Venice Film Festival, and Mailer visits Ezra Pound, who later says he admires all of the poems in Deaths for the Ladies (62.3).
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1971

Preceded by three excerpts in Life, Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1) is published on 11 January by Little, Brown, the first of eight books by to be published by this firm. It is later nominated for the National Book Award in the sciences category.
“The Prisoner of Sex” (71.10) is published in the March Harper’s, which displeases the magazine’s owners and contributes to the resignation of its editor, Willie Morris.
A staged reading of D.J., a one-act play based on Why Are We in Vietnam? (76.15) is given in New York.
Maggie Alexandra born to Carol on 21 March.
On 30 April, takes part in a contentious and humorous discourse, “A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation” (see 71.16) at Town Hall in New York City, along with Germaine Greer, Diana Trilling and others. Mailer says that his hair turned white that night. The evening forms the basis for Donn Pennebaker’s documentary film, “Town Bloody Hall,” which is Germaine Greer’s description of the evening.
The Prisoner of Sex (71.20), which contains Mailer’s brilliant 40-page reflection on D.H. Lawrence, is published in book form on 27 May, and nominated for the National Book Award in the arts and letters category.
In August, José Torres’s biography of Muhammad Ali, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story, is published with a preface by Mailer.
On 8 September, Matthew Norris born to Barbara Norris, who Mailer will informally adopt after Mailer marries his mother in 1980.
Maidstone premieres at the Whitney Museum in New York City on 22 September, and is published as Maidstone: A Mystery (71.28) in October. The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer (71.29), a 739-page anthology containing selections from all of Mailer’s major books to that year, edited by Robert F. Lucid, is published on 25 October. Lucid also edits the first collection of critical essays, Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work, published by Little, Brown.
On 2 December, he appears on the Dick Cavett Show with Janet Flanner and Gore Vidal, and via his acrimonious exchanges with Vidal (who compared Mailer to Charles Manson in an essay in the New York Review of Books), re-writes the rules of the television talk show when he attacks his host and fellow guests, and draws the audience into the fray.
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1972

begins work on what for the next several years will be called “the Egyptian novel,” later published as Ancient Evenings (83.18).
In debt and in arrears to the I.R.S, he speaks at more than 20 colleges to earn money over the year.
His fourth miscellany, Existential Errands (72.7), which contains his essays on film and theatre, and his negative review of Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir, Making It, is published on 17 April.
In the summer, he covers the national political conventions, and publishes his account of them, St. George and the Godfather (72.17), in late October (with advance excerpts in Life and New York Review of Books).
In September, he and Carol Stevens move to Stockbridge, MA, where he purchases a house.
On 12 October his father dies. In November, he begins working on a biography of Marilyn Monroe, shortly after meeting with his most important collaborator, Lawrence Schiller, who conceives of the book and supplies the many photos that accompany Mailer’s words.
Later that month in Illinois he meets J. Michael Lennon, who will become his editor, archivist and authorized biographer.
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1973

At his 50th birthday party (celebrated on 5 February at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York), he announces, after too much drinking and a dirty joke, his idea for “The Fifth Estate,” a citizen watchdog group to keep tabs on public agencies and officials. It fizzles out in a few years, but is prescient: the Watergate break-in occurs in June.
Preceded by excerpts in Ladies Home Journal, Atlantic and New York Review of Books, Marilyn: A Biography (73.30) is published on 1 August, and becomes a best seller with over 400,000 copies in print. It is the first of a string of biographies Mailer will publish over the next thirty years.
On 18 August, he is awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, after remarks by his good friend, George Plimpton.
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1974

In May, The Faith of Graffiti (74.9), an essay on New York’s graffiti artists (conceived by Lawrence Schiller with photographs by Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Naar) is published simultaneously in Esquire and book form.
In October, covers the “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman heavyweight fight in Zaire which Ali wins by a knockout in the eighth round to regain the championship.
Laura Adams publishes the first major primary and secondary bibliography of Mailer’s work, Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography.
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1975

In March, Mailer meets Barbara Norris (later Norris Church Mailer) in Arkansas through his army friend “Fig” Gwaltney.
The Fight (75.12) is published on 21 July, after long excerpts appear in Playboy. It is the last of eight consecutive books in which he uses the third person to depict himself, a technique called illeism, or third person personal.
He spends most of the summer in Mt. Desert, ME.
In December, he separates from Carol Stevens and begins living with Norris Church and her son Matthew at 142 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.
Excerpts from The Fight in Playboy win the magazine’s Best Nonfiction Award.
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1976

On 25 February, is awarded the Gold Medal for Literature by the National Arts Club.
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (76.5), is published on 1 April.
In September, he profiles presidential candidate Jimmy Carter for the New York Times Magazine.
Preceded by an excerpt in American Review, Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (76.12), edited by Mailer and containing 80 pages of his commentary, is published in October.
He receives Playboy's Best Major Work in Fiction Award for “Trial of the Warlock,” a screenplay based on J. K. Huysmans’s 1891 novel, Là-Bas. The screenplay remains uncollected.
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1978

A facsimile of the manuscript of ’s unpublished 1943 novel, A Transit to Narcissus (78.2), is published by Howard Fertig in January.
John Buffalo born to Norris on 16 April.
Mailer summers again in Mt. Desert, ME. Judith McNally becomes Mailer's secretary and continues in that role until her death in 2006.
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1979

The Executioner's Song (79.14), ’s third and most important collaboration with Lawrence Schiller, is published on 15 October, with excerpts appearing in Playboy, October-December. Based on over 15,000 pages of interviews, letters, media reports, legal and medical documents, this 1,056-page narrative tells the life story of Gary Gilmore, a Utah double murderer who fights to have his own execution carried out shortly after his conviction. He is executed by a firing squad in January 1977.
This “true-life novel,” as Mailer describes it, climbs to number three on the New York Times bestseller list in January 1980, and spends 25 weeks, all told, on the list, the longest period for all of his books save The Naked and the Dead. Joan Didion calls it, “an absolutely astonishing book” in her 7 October review in the New York Times Book Review. In early November, after a correspondence with him about prison life, Mailer meets convict Jack Henry Abbott, at the Marion Federal Penitentiary in Illinois. In December, The Executioner's Song is nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and wins the Best Major Work in Fiction Award from Playboy.
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1980

On 14 April, The Executioner’s Song wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
In November, divorces Beverly Bentley, marries and divorces Carol Stevens, and marries (on 11 November) Norris Church.
Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15), a short novel about an imaginary incident in Marilyn Monroe’s life, is published on 26 November, the same month that he and Norris play cameo roles in Miloš Forman’s film based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel, Ragtime.
In the fall, Mailer is interviewed in Germany by J. Michael Lennon for a film documentary, Norman Mailer: A Sanction to Write, which is later shown in the U.S.
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