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· American · 1923–2007

Norman Mailer

Novelist and journalist, one of the two writers Nobody Knows My Name closes on — The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy is Baldwin's portrait of him, written while Mailer was alive to read it.

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Lived
1923–2007
Born
1923
Died
2007
Nationality
American
Roles
AuthorJournalist

People Norman Mailer Knew

Relationships with other people, with sources for each connection.

Illustrated portrait of J. P. Donleavy

J. P. Donleavy

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Met

Donleavy recalled meeting Mailer at a New York party after talk of a televised boxing match between the two writers.

— A Singular Man: J. P. Donleavy on His Fascinating Life Since The Ginger Man (2010)

Works Connected to Norman Mailer

Books, art, and other works connected to Norman Mailer, with sources explaining each connection.

Cover of Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin

Depicted in · Book

Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin · 1961

One of the two writer portraits the collection closes on — and unlike the Wright pieces, its subject was alive to read it.

— James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (1961), 'The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy'

Connections and Sources

Norman Mailer’s connections to people, places, and works, with the sources behind each one.

Depicted in

Nobody Knows My Name

One of the two writer portraits the collection closes on — and unlike the Wright pieces, its subject was alive to read it.

— James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (1961), 'The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy'

Met

J. P. Donleavy

Donleavy recalled meeting Mailer at a New York party after talk of a televised boxing match between the two writers.

— A Singular Man: J. P. Donleavy on His Fascinating Life Since The Ginger Man (2010)