Isaac Barnett (“Barney”) Mailer marries Fanny Schneider in Manhattan.

Mailer’s fiftieth birthday and the announcement of “The Fifth Estate.”

January 31, 1923: A Birthday for a Writer Who Refused to Be Finished

January 21, 1967: Mailer Tests His Novel in Public.

This year, we launch a new feature for a new web site.

January 7, 1967: One of Mailer’s earliest “I’ll do it myself” moves—self-mythmaking through film.