Norman Mailer in a suit and tie, leaning back against the ropes of a boxing ring in a gym, about 1955
Mailer in a boxing ring, about 1955, the year of The Deer Park. Photographer unknown.

NormanMailer

1923 – 2007

“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.” — The Deer Park, 1955

Coming up in Mailerian history · October 31

“Norman on Senator [Jacob] Javits” (1974) A 200-word Village Voice endorsement of Senator Jacob Javits, 'the personification of a great legislator,' for a fourth term.

Read the entry in Works and Days

Source: Norman Mailer: Works and Days, ed. Jerry Lucas; founding eds. J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon.