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 · October 29

1964. Village Voice prints "A Vote for Bobby K. — Possibility of a Hero" (64.19) — Mailer's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy in the New York U.S. Senate race.

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.