Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations Begiebing Robert J.

Winner of the Robert F. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Lucid Award for Mailer StudiesNorman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author's centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters.

Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations Begiebing lays out how this polymath author's work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nation's founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism.The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and Begiebing's own interview with Mailer from 1983.