Norman Mailer bibliography

This Norman Mailer bibliography lists major books by and about Mailer, an American novelist, new journalist, essayist, public intellectual, filmmaker, and biographer. Over a fifty-nine-year period, Mailer won two Pulitzer Prizes and had eleven books spend a total of 160 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Mailer's output included fiction, non-fiction, poems and essays. Biographer J. Michael Lennon called Mailer the chronicler of the American Century, and a talent whose career has "been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, improvisational, public, productive, lengthy and misunderstood".

Anthologies, collections and miscellanies

Beginning in 1959, it became a habit of Mailer's to release his periodical writing, excerpts, and the occasional new piece in collections and miscellanies every few years. Not including letters, Mailer had written for over 100 magazines and periodicals, including Dissent, Ladies Home Journal, One: The Homosexual Magazine, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Harper's, New Yorker, and others.

Title	Year	Publication Information
Advertisements for Myself	1959	New York: Putnam, 1959.
The Presidential Papers	1963	New York: Putnam, 1963.
Cannibals and Christians	1966	New York: Dial, 1966.
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer	1967	New York: Dell, 1967.
The Idol and the Octopus	1968	New York: Dell, 1968.
The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer	1971	New York: World, 1971.
Existential Errands	1972	Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972	1976	Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
The Essential Mailer	1982	Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982.
Pieces and Pontifications	1982	Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.
The Time of Our Time	1998	New York: Random House, 1998.
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing	2003	New York: Random House, 2003.
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer	2013	New York: Random House: 2013.
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s	2018	New York: Library of America, 2018.
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s	2018	New York: Library of America, 2018.

Conversations and interviews

By 1986, Mailer had been interviewed approximately 200 times, perhaps more than any other American author on a wide range of topics. He may maintain that distinction today.

Title	Year	Publication Information	Notes
Pieces and Pontifications	1982	Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.	contains 20 interviews
Conversations with Norman Mailer	1988	Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.	Edited by J. Michael Lennon.
The Big Empty	2006	New York: Nation Books.	With John Buffalo Mailer.
On God: An Uncommon Conversation	2007	New York: Random House.	With J. Michael Lennon.

Short stories

Title	Written	Published	Original Publication	Collected In	Notes
"The Greatest Thing in the World"	1940	1941	Harvard Advocate	Story 19 ; Hold Your Breath: Suspense Stories ; Story: The Fiction of the Forties ; AFM ; SFNM	written during Mailer's sophomore year at Harvard; won Story magazine's eighth annual college writing contest
"Right Shoe on Left Foot"	1941	1942	Harvard Advocate		never reprinted
"Maybe Next Year"	1941	1942	Harvard Advocate	The Harvard Advocate Anthology ; AFM ; SFNM	written in Mailer's junior year at Harvard
"A Calculus at Heaven"	1942	1944	Cross-Section: A Collection of New American Writing	AFM ; SFNM ; EM	written for Robert Hillyer's English A-5 class in Mailer's senior year at Harvard
"The Paper House"	1951–1952	1952	New World Writing: Second Mentor Collection	Lilliput's Extra Holiday Reading ; AFM ; SFNM ; A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer ; EM ; Stag	based on an anecdote by Vance Bourjaily, to whom Mailer dedicated the story
"The Dead Gook"	1951–1952	1952	Discovery, No. 1	AFM ; SFNM ; A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer ; EM
"The Language of Men"	1951–1952	1953	Esquire	Various Temptations ; The Armchair Esquire ; AFM ; SFNM ; A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer ; EM
"Pierrot"	1951	1953	World Review	AFM ; SFNM	published as "The Patron Saint of MacDougal Alley" in AFM and SFNM with changes
"The Notebook"	1951–1952	1953	Cornhill Magazine no. 996	The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, No. 3 ; AFM ; SFNM ; EM	reprinted in The Mailer Review 12.1
"The Man Who Studied Yoga"	1951–1952	1956	New Short Novels 2	AFM ; SFNM ; EM ; TOOT
"Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out"	1958	1958	Partisan Review 25	AFM ; SFNM ; EM
"The Time of Her Time"	1958	1959	AFM	SFNM ; Writer’s Choice: Each of Twenty American Authors Introduces His Own Best Story ; EM ; TOOT
"It"	1939	1959	AFM	SFNM
"Great in the Hay"	1950	1959	AFM	SFNM
"Truth and Being: Nothing and Time"	1960	1962	Evergreen Review no. 26	PP ; SFNM ; Evergreen Review Reader: A Ten Year Anthology, 1962–1967, Vol. II ; EM
"The Locust Cry"	1963	1963	Commentary	PP ; CAC ; SFNM ; EM
"The Last Night: a Story"	1962	1963	Esquire	CAC ; SFNM ; EM ; The Last Night	reprinted in The Mailer Review 13.1 with an introduction by J. Michael Lennon
"The Killer: a Story"	1960	1964	Evergreen Review no. 32	CAC ; SFNM ; EM
"Ministers of Taste: A Story"	1965	1965	Partisan Review no. 32	CAC ; SFNM ; EM
"The Shortest Novel of Them All"	1963	1967	SFNM		the only story in SFNM that was not previously published
"The Blood of the Blunt"	1951	2012	The Mailer Review		previously unpublished short story, circa 1951
"Love Buds"	1942–43	2013	The Mailer Review		previously unpublished short story written in Mailer's senior year in college, 1942–43
"La Petite Bourgeoise"	1951	2014	The Mailer Review		previously unpublished short story, circa 1951
"The Thalian Adventure"	1951	2015	The Mailer Review		previously unpublished short story, circa 1951
"The Collision"	1933	2016	The Mailer Review		Mailer's first complete story, previously unpublished, written January 1933
"Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste"	1951	2017	The Mailer Review		previously unpublished short story, circa 1951
"Trial of the Warlock"	?	1976	Playboy

Norman Mailer bibliography

Anthologies, collections and miscellanies

Conversations and interviews

Short stories

Critical studies of Mailer's work