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Norman Mailer, First Editions, 1948-2007

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  1. The Naked and the Dead (New York: Rinehart, 1948), novel;
  2. Barbary Shore (New York: Rinehart, 1951), novel;
  3. The Deer Park (New York: Putnam, 1955), novel;
  4. The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959), essay;
  5. Advertisements for Myself (New York: Putnam, 1959), miscellany;
  6. Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (New York: Putnam), poems;
  7. The Presidential Papers (New York: Putnam, 1963), miscellany;
  8. An American Dream (New York: Dial, 1965), novel;
  9. Cannibals and Christians (New York: Dial, 1966), miscellany;
  10. The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (New York: Dell, 1967; published with material from Existential Errands under the title The Essential Mailer, Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982);
  11. The Deer Park: A Play (New York: Dial, 1967);
  12. Why Are We in Vietnam? (New York: Putnam, 1967), novel;
  13. The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer (New York: Macmillan, 1967);
  14. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (New York: New American Library, 1968), nonfiction narrative;
  15. The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, miscellany;
  16. Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (New York: New American Library, 1968);
  17. Of a Fire on the Moon (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), nonfiction narrative;
  18. King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century (New York: New American Library, 1971), essay;
  19. Prisoner of Sex (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), essay;
  20. Maidstone: A Mystery (New York: New American Library, 1971), screenplay;
  21. The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer (edited with an introduction by Robert F. Lucid, New York: World, 1971);
  22. Existential Errands (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), miscellany;
  23. St. George and the Godfather (New York: New American Library, 1972), nonfiction narrative;
  24. Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World’s Foremost Photographers (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973);
  25. The Faith of Graffiti (New York: Praeger, 1974), essay;
  26. The Fight (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), nonfiction narrative;
  27. Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), anthology;
  28. Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (New York: Grove, 1976), essay and collection;
  29. A Transit to Narcissus (New York: Howard Fertig, 1978), novel;
  30. The Executioner’s Song (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979), nonfiction narrative;
  31. Of Women and Their Elegance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980), novel;
  32. Pieces and Pontifications (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982; Pieces and Pontifications also published simultaneously by Little, Brown as two softcovers; Pontifications edited by J. Michael Lennon with introduction), miscellany;
  33. Ancient Evenings (Boston: Little, Brown, 1983), novel;
  34. Tough Guys Don’t Dance (New York: Random House, 1984), novel;
  35. Conversations with Norman Mailer (edited with an introduction by J. Michael Lennon. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988);
  36. Harlot’s Ghost (New York: Random House, 1991), novel;
  37. Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (New York: Random House, 1995), nonfiction narrative;
  38. Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995);
  39. The Gospel According to the Son (New York: Random House, 1997), novel;
  40. The Time of Our Time (New York: Random House, 1998), retrospective anthology;
  41. The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing (edited by J. Michael Lennon. New York: Random House, 2003), miscellany;
  42. Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (New York: Random House, 2003);
  43. Why Are We at War? (New York: Random House, 2003), essay;
  44. Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969 (Edited by J. Michael Lennon. Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press, 2004);
  45. The Big Empty. With John Buffalo Mailer (New York: Nation Books, 2006), conversations;
  46. The Castle in the Forest (New York: Random House, 2007), novel;
  47. On God: An Uncommon Conversation With Michael Lennon (New York: Random House, 2007).

In Works and Days

  • “The White Negro” — “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster” — Mailer’s most celebrated and most castigated essay, and one of the most anthologized American essays since…
  • Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) — Mailer’s first book of poems and his first book under the G.
  • The Presidential Papers — Mailer’s second miscellany — published by Putnam’s on 8 November 1963, two weeks before the Kennedy assassination.
  • Cannibals and Christians — Mailer’s third miscellany (after Advertisements for Myself and The Presidential Papers): essays, poems, interviews, and criticism gathered under the figure of a world…
  • The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer — A Dell paperback gathering nineteen of Mailer’s short stories with a new, self-deprecating introduction (“Hunger for Method, Greed for Gold”).
  • Existential Errands — Mailer’s fourth miscellany, gathering essays on film, theatre, and politics from the previous five years, including his negative review of Norman Podhoretz’s Making It.
  • The Essential Mailer — A 586-page British omnibus from New English Library combining The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (1967) and Existential Errands (1972), with two excisions.
  • The Deer Park: A Play — Mailer’s stage adaptation of his 1955 novel The Deer Park, published by Dial on 7 August 1967 after a New York run at the Theatre de Lys (31 January-21 May 1967, 127…

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