Robert F. Lucid Award

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.

Lucid and Mailer, 1995

Lucid Award Winners

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