Michael Lennon - Norman Mailer - a double life

death of, 517

on Deer Park, 179

NM’s “Evaluation” comments on, 250, 258

NM’s friendship with, 132, 138, 142, 147–48, 156–57, 158, 170, 252, 517–18, 758

NM’s rapprochement with, 258

NM’s split with, 212–13, 229, 232–34

Jones, Kaylie, 517–18

Jones, Tommy Lee, 567, 569–70

Jong, Erica, 249, 609

Joyce, James, 29, 32, 46, 206

Joyce, Sandy (char.), 310–11, 362

JR (Gaddis), 495

Jung, Carl, 707

Jung, Mattie, 551

Junod, Tom, 751

Kadesh, Battle of, 502, 554, 579, 582

Kael, Pauline, 376, 468

Kafka, Franz, 118

Kakutani, Michiko, 683, 704

NM’s feud with, 686–87, 699, 726, 727, 739–40, 751

on NM’s relationship with Abbott, 565

pre-publication reviews by, 683, 686–87, 699, 726, 727, 739–40, 751

tribute to NM by, 763

Kaminsky, Howard, 504

Kamrass, Minnie, 8

Kapital, Das (Marx), 117, 121

Karnow, Stanley, 1

Karov, Joseph, 104, 110

Kaslow, Berta, 58, 59, 61, 106

Katahdin, Mount, 624–25

Katz, Harold, 26, 51

Kaufer, Maxwell, 26

Kaufman, Elaine, 459

Kaufmann, Donald, 352–53

Kaufmann, Myron, 26

Kaufmann, Walter, 318

Kazan, Elia, 226, 615

Kazin, Alfred, 92, 97, 221, 252, 253–54, 257–58, 260, 289, 364, 397, 726

Kazin, Pearl, 142–43

Keating, Kenneth, 345

Kelly, Barney Oswald (char.), 41, 256, 328, 339, 340–42

Kelly, Gene, 111

Kemp, Arnold, 287

Kempton, Murray, 228, 275, 320

Kennedy, Dana, 759

Kennedy, Gene and Sarah, 759

Kennedy, Jacqueline, see Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Kennedy, John F., 261, 262, 274, 306, 325, 337, 410, 433, 467, 643, 704

assassination of, 333, 334, 336, 370, 377, 599, 631, 648, 649, 653–54, 666, 669, 676

as character in American Dream, 334

as character in Harlot’s Ghost, 629

extramarital affairs of, 306, 613

in 1960 election, 265, 269, 272–73, 276

NM on, 266, 268, 334–35, 336

NM’s meetings with, 269–70

Kennedy, John F., Jr., 698

Kennedy, Robert F., 323, 345

assassination of, 400, 405, 411

as character in Harlot’s Ghost, 629

Monroe’s relationship with, 465, 467

Kennedy, William, 653, 732–34, 759

Kennedy family, 410, 412

Kent State University shootings, 428

Kermode, Frank, 700

Kerouac, Jack, 131, 193, 227, 239, 240, 242, 245, 249, 260, 738

Kerr, Walter, 372, 373–74

Kesey, Ken, 51

Kessler, Anne Mailer, 10–11, 13, 14, 17–18, 19, 33, 42, 55, 94, 134, 194

Kessler, David, 10–11, 13, 14, 17–18, 19, 33, 42, 54–55, 94, 96, 107, 134, 194, 255

KGB, 598, 667, 668

Oswald file of, 665, 668–71

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 636

Khrushchev, Nikita, 669

Khufu, Pyramid of, 478

Kidd, Janet Gladys, 304, 312

Kierkegaard, Søren, 167, 318–19

Kiesel, Harold, 24

Kimmelman, Michael, 685

King, Larry L., 440, 545–46, 459, 487

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 381, 426

assassination of, 400

King Lear (film), 623

NM’s screenplay for, see “Don Learo”

King of the Hill (Mailer), 448

Kingsley, Norman T. (char.), 400–401, 402

Kingsley Court, 14

Kitchen (film), 375–76

Kluger, Richard, 358–59

Knopf, Alfred, 180, 198

Knopf, Blanche, 180

“Know-Nothing Barbarians, The” (Podhoretz), 227

Knox, Georgette, 125, 287

Knox, Mickey, 113, 125, 126, 136, 147–48, 151, 153, 195, 205, 213, 226, 258, 263, 265, 267, 280, 281, 369, 372, 375, 380, 473, 492, 493, 602, 667, 698

and Adele’s stabbing, 285–86

NM’s letters to, 218–19, 224, 225, 235, 237, 244, 297, 306, 325, 334–35, 339, 342, 370, 374, 398, 404, 441, 445, 473, 486, 487, 501, 605, 607, 617, 623, 639, 643

Koch, Ed, 525, 610, 632

Koenig, Rhoda, 582

Koestler, Arthur, 61

Korean War, 120, 129

Kosinski, Jerzy, 556, 619

Kotlowitz, Robert, 392

Kovacs, Ernie, 201

Krakauer, Alice, 414

Krassner, Paul, 356

Krementz, Jill, 500, 554

Krim, Seymour, 266, 275, 279, 483

Krueger, Walter, 66

Kubizek, August, 712

Kubrick, Stanley, 339

Kurlansky, Mervyn, 474

Kuzma, Michael, 721

Lá-Bas (Huysmans), 501

La Capponcina, 295, 309

Lachmann, Jordan, 288

Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! (Goldman), 470, 511

Ladies’ Home Journal, 468

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 32, 33, 438, 439

Lakeview Lodge, 10–11

Lamarr, Hedy, 118

“Lament for Sánchez Mejías” (García Lorca), 374

LaMotta, Jake, 327–28

Lampert, Stanley, 26

Lancaster, Burt, 112, 118, 120, 121, 126

Lanchester, Elsa, 192

Landy, George, 122, 131

Lane, Mark, 370

Lang, Fritz, 96

Langlais, Rudy, 591–92

“Language of Men, The” (Mailer), 139, 149

Lanham, Richard, 294

Lansky, Meyer, 592

Laos, bombing of, 455

Lapham, Lewis, 440, 565

Lareine, Patty (char.), 584, 621

Larsen, Roy E., 39

Larsen, Wayne, 558

“Last Advertisement for Myself Before the Way Out” (Mailer), 251

“Last Night, The” (Mailer), 333, 361, 581

Last of the Just, The (Schwarz-Bart), 446, 576

Last Party, The (Morales), 141

Last Picture Show, The (film), 487

Last Sitting, The (Stern), 615

Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 131, 197

Late Show with David Letterman, 680

Laughton, Charles, 169, 178, 192, 194, 724

Lavaca, USS, 78

Lawford, Pat Kennedy, 371, 500, 524, 555, 601

Lawrence, D. H., 32, 36, 88, 92, 164, 187, 223, 433, 437, 438–39, 442, 488

Lawrence, Frieda, 438–39

Lazare, Rhoda, see Wolf, Rhoda Lazare

Leacock, Richard, 401

Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 373

Lee, Spike, 699

Lee, Will, 372

Leeds, Barry H., 341, 548, 579

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 348, 434, 540, 579, 647–48

Leibovitz, Annie, 477

Lemmon, Jack, 459

Lenin, V. I., 598

Lennon, Donna, 714–15, 748, 750, 761, 763

Lennon, J. Michael “Mike,” 542, 562, 597, 702, 707, 714–15, 721, 723, 734, 735–36, 738, 748, 750, 752, 755, 758, 759

Lennon, John, 549, 572

Lennon, Peter, 542

Leonard, John, 461

Leone, Sergio, 492–93, 569

Letterman, David, 680

Letting Go (Roth), 326

Levertov, Denise, 98

Levin, Harry, 46

Levin, Meyer, 501

Levine, David, 455

Lévy, Bernard-Henri, 742

Levy, Rueben, 286

Lewis, Shirley R., 523–24

Lewis, Sinclair, 109, 114, 131

Libra (DeLillo), 633–34

Liebling, A. J., 322

Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 250

Lies My Mother Never Told Me (K. Jones), 517–18

Life, 38, 39, 109, 116, 150, 217, 239, 299, 307, 349, 350, 351, 357, 410, 417, 434, 452, 455, 466, 535, 553

Of a Fire on the Moon serialized in, 421, 423

“Life Is Where You Find It” (Mailer), 33

Lifton, Betty Jean, 397

Lifton, Robert J., 397–98

Lincoln (Vidal), 602

Lind, Phyllis, 201

Lindner, Johnnie, 166, 168, 169

Lindner, Robert, 168, 169, 172, 184–85, 194, 213, 296, 438

death of, 202–3

Deer Park manuscript read by, 166

“Lipton’s Journal” read by, 185, 202

NM’s friendship with, 163–65, 166–68, 173, 175, 181, 184, 186

Lindsay, John, 358, 419, 474–75

Linenthal, Mark, 99, 105, 107, 108, 118, 331

Linscott, Robert N., 59, 85–86

Lipton, Eunice, 685

“Lipton’s Journal” (Mailer), 182–91, 206, 242, 497, 636