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

This day in Mailerian history · November 1

1964. Book Week (NYHT) prints Mailer's review of LBJ's My Hope for America: "The Best Man, 1964" (64.21).

More from 1964 in Works and Days

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