Welcome to the Norman Mailer Society.
We promote the study, preservation, and celebration of Norman Mailer’s life and work.
The Norman Mailer Society, a non-profit organization, was founded in 2003 to celebrate Norman Mailer, author of 40 books and the chronicler of the American Century. It has approximately 300 members and meets annually for three days for panels, papers, films and informal discussion about the life, work, and reputation of the late Mr. Mailer.
Latest
- Featured Spotlight Barbara Mailer Wasserman Writer, Sister of Norman Mailer dies at 98.
- The Afterlives of Literary Reputation In a guest post for Jacobin, Christian Lorentzen looks back at the 2022 “cancellation” of Norman Mailer and asks what actually decides whether a writer is still read.
- Twenty Years of The Mailer Review Volume 16 of The Mailer Review, a festschrift for founding editor Phillip Sipiora, is published today, the opening day of the Society’s conference in St. Pete Beach.
- Before It Was “Exit,” It Was “Executioner’s Song” U2’s “Exit” began as Bono’s attempt to get inside the mind of a killer after reading The Executioner’s Song. Its working title was Mailer’s.
- Life Returns to Print Life comes back as a quarterly on November 23, ninety years after its debut. Mailer wrote five pieces for it, and his first put his face on the cover.
- A House by the Sea Peter Swanson puts Tough Guys Don’t Dance on his CrimeReads list of great suspense stories set in a house by the sea.
- Erik Nakjavani Erik G.R. Nakjavani, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, a founding member of the Hemingway Society, and a longtime friend of the Mailer Society, died on September 27, 2026.
- The Sipiora Years, Online All fifteen volumes of The Mailer Review edited by Phillip Sipiora, 2007–2021, are now online for the first time.
Coming Up in Mailerian History
November 8
The Presidential Papers (1963) Published on November 8, 1963, this book arrived just before Kennedy's assassination. That timing gave Mailer's portrait of the Kennedy era an immediate historical poignancy.
More from 1963 in Works and Days
Source: Lennon, J. Michael and Lennon, Donna. Norman Mailer: Works and Days. Ed. Gerald R. Lucas. 2018.
Publications
- Back Volumes of The Mailer Review Order print back volumes of The Mailer Review, singly or as a complete set
- Norman Mailer: Works and Days A comprehensive chronology of Norman Mailer’s life, publications, and collaborations
- Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 Centennial remembrances of Norman Mailer from the Society’s community
- The Mailer Review The Norman Mailer Society’s annual journal of scholarship, art, and archival discoveries
- The Norman Mailer Society Podcast Interviews, rare recordings, and conversations, 2015–2018