The Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies was established in 2003 in recognition of Professor Lucid’s long and distinguished career as a Mailer scholar-critic. The Lucid Award is given annually based on the recommendation of a Society committee. The winner receives a plaque and a $250 honorarium and is invited to speak at the Society’s annual meeting. The Lawrence Schiller Educational Trust matches all contributions, up to a total of $5,000, to an endowment set up to fund the Lucid Award. We are deeply grateful to Mr. Schiller for his gifts.
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Lucid Award Winners
2025
David Denby, Imminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer
2024
J. Michael Lennon, Gerald R. Lucas, and Susan Mailer, Norman Mailer’s Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954–1955.
2022
Robert J. Begiebing, Norman Mailer at 100
2021
Maggie McKinley, Norman Mailer in Context
2019
J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon, Gerald R. Lucas, Norman Mailer: Works and Days
2018
Maggie McKinley, Understanding Norman Mailer
2015
Kevin Schultz, Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties
2014
J. Michael Lennon, The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
2013
J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life
2012
Lawrence Schiller, “Lifetime Achievement Award” for major role in Oswald’s Tale, The Executioner’s Song, and Marilyn: A Biography
2011
Norris Church Mailer, A Ticket to the Circus
John Whalen-Bridge, Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest
2009
J. Michael Lennon for his work from 2002–2009 as founding president of the Norman Mailer Society
2007
John Whalen-Bridge