Bidspirit auction | [LITERATURE] - Norman Mailer: Christmas

[LITERATURE] - Norman Mailer: Christmas Wishes Amid Rehearsals - MAILER Norman - Typed letter signed with autograph lines, dated “December 20, 1966” by the American writer. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. Mailer is considered an innovator of ”creative nonfiction” or ”New Journalism”, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, a genre that uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. To Helen: “…Just a quick note to say hello and wish you a Merry Christmas. Have been working awfully hard on the play and just hope it’s to some point…”. Mailer produced a play version of his 1955 novel “The Deer Park”, which will be staged at the Theatre De Lys in Greenwich Village in 1967. 1/4 p. In-4. With typed letterhead. Envelope included.