Michael Lennon - Norman Mailer - a double life

On the Road (Kerouac), 239, 738

On the Waterfront (film), 267

Open End (TV show), 244–45, 337

“Open Letter to Fidel Castro, An” (Mailer), 264, 278, 285, 292

Operation Coronet, 77, 78

Operation Olympic, 77

Operation Rolling Thunder, 363–64

Origins of Satan, The (Pagels), 696

Orwell, George, 120

O’Shaugnessy, Sergius (char.), 69, 118, 135, 155–56, 162, 172, 189, 192–93, 194, 196, 205, 225, 235, 252–53, 272, 310, 362

Osiris, 578, 579, 582

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 54, 333, 334, 370, 377, 435, 633, 643, 648

KGB file on, 665, 668–71

in Russia, 666–68, 669–70, 676

Oswald, Marguerite Claverie, 679–80

Oswald, Marina, 666, 667–68, 672–73, 676

Oswald’s Tale (Mailer), 664, 713

interviews for, 668, 670, 672–73

New Yorker excerpt of, 682

NM and Schiller in trips to Russia for, 665–71

Parade excerpt of, 682

reviews of, 682–84, 692, 751

sales of, 691

writing of, 674, 675, 677–80

Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote), 137

“Our Man at Harvard” (Mailer), 47–48, 569

Ozick, Cynthia, 147, 260, 442

Pabst, Christina, 725

Pacino, Al, 615

Pagels, Elaine, 696

Painter of Modern Life, The (Richardson), 665

Paley, Grace, 260, 609

Paley, William, 513

Palimpsest (Vidal), 514

Pangborn, Lonnie (char.), 586–87

“Paper House, The” (Mailer), 139, 149

Parade, 550, 598, 682

Paradise Lost (Milton), 639

Paret, Benny, 320–21

Paris, 1, 98–105, 694

Paris in the Fifties (Karnow), 1

Paris Review, 197, 228, 273, 280, 337, 577, 756

Parker, Dorothy, 112, 116, 244, 245

Parker, Mary-Louise, 721

Parmentel, Noel, Jr., 279, 401, 410

Partisan Review, 4, 146–47, 223, 227–28, 235, 239, 243, 256, 300, 349, 350, 356, 385, 394–95, 426

Passage to India (Forster), 102

Pastrano, Willie, 347, 352

Patriarchal Attitudes (Figes), Vidal’s review of, 447

Patterson, Floyd, 315, 320, 323

Patterson-Liston fight (1962), 315, 319, 320–22

Patterson-Liston rematch (1963), 328, 331

Pearl, Mike, 563–64

Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 43, 64

Peeling the Onion (Grass), 756

PEN, American chapter of:

NM’s presidency of, 600–603, 606–10, 612

Rushdie rally organized by, 637

PEN, 48th International Congress of, 600, 601–2, 607, 610, 612, 646

fundraising series for (PEN Celebration), 602–3, 606–7

paucity of women panelists at, 609–10

Shultz controversy at, 608, 610

theme of, 608–9

Pennebaker, Donn, 375, 401, 402

People, 523, 554

Peresvetova, Ludmilla, 665, 670, 671

Peretz, Martin, 356, 701

Performing Self, The (Poirier), 452

pericardium, 283, 379

Perkins, Maxwell, 179, 644

Peru (Lish), 611

Peter the Great (film), 598

Petrie, Flinders, 575

Petty, George, 27

Philby, Kim, 598, 629, 630, 648

Philippines, 62, 65–77

NM’s 1975 return to, 491–92

Phillips, William, 146, 223, 243, 252, 289, 349

Picasso, Pablo, 435, 685–86

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism (Rubin), 675

Picture: A Story About Hollywood (Ross), 531

Pieces and Pontifications (Mailer), 500, 542, 562

Lucid’s review of, 569

Pistol, The (Jones), NM’s criticisms of, 232

Place in the Sun, A (film), 121

Planet Without Visa (Malaquais), 690

Playboy, 228, 324, 374, 447, 479, 736

Harlot’s Ghost excerpt in, 632

NM’s Ali-Foreman report published in, 478, 482

NM’s debate with Buckley published in, 317–18

NM’s interview in, 377–78

Schiller’s Gilmore interview published in, 503–4

“Play in the Fields of the Bored, At” (Toback), 403

Plexus (Miller), 497, 591

Plimpton, George, 196, 259, 280, 283, 308, 380, 458, 459, 531, 534, 608, 638, 699, 706

NM’s eulogy for, 730–31

in Zelda, Scott, & Ernest, 715–16

Podhoretz, Norman, 116, 147, 227–28, 229, 252, 254, 281, 282, 285, 286, 289, 308, 334, 362, 364, 378, 394, 442

in break with NM, 396–97

as NM’s literary executor, 378

and NM’s Making It review, 395

Poetry (Swenson), 294

Poirier, Richard, 350, 359, 412, 452–53, 579, 580, 581

NM’s letters to, 462, 472

“Portrait of Hemingway” (Ross), 150

Portrait of Jennie (Nathan), 36

Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (Mailer), 105, 300, 664–65, 687

reviews of, 684–87, 692

Richardson and, 665, 674–75, 686

sales of, 691

Posner, Gerald, 666, 676, 678

Posner, Vladimir, 598

Pound, Ezra, 147, 264, 629–30

NM’s visit to, 430

Powell, Dawn, 240

Powers, Thomas, 684

“Prelude to Sleep” (Mailer), 30

Prescott, Orville, 110, 197

Prescription for Rebellion (Lindner), 163, 164

Presidential Papers, The (Mailer), 292, 318, 325, 333, 334, 356, 359

Presley, Priscilla, 567

Price, Reynolds, 700

Prisoner of Sex, The (Mailer), 361, 431, 432, 436–39, 441, 442, 443, 448, 453

“Prisoner of Sex, The” (Mailer), 431–32, 435, 440, 441

Pritchett, V. S., 120, 134

Prizzi’s Honor (film), 631

Procaccino, Mario, 419

Proferes, Nicholas, 379, 401

Progressive Party, 111, 112, 117

Proust, Marcel, 46

Provincetown, Mass., 55, 56, 82, 86, 126, 127–28, 137, 193–94, 266–67, 269, 297, 311–12, 342–43, 356, 359, 364–65, 376, 391, 392, 404, 413, 425, 428, 429, 432, 451, 454, 470–71, 486, 545, 555–56, 570, 585–86, 620, 631, 707, 756

NM’s funeral in, 763

NM’s house in, 456, 523–24, 584, 606, 618, 628, 639–41, 705, 709, 720, 731–32

NM’s love of, 585, 591, 641–42, 742

Tough Guys Don’t Dance filmed in, 620–21

Provincetown Annual, 266

Provincetown Arts, 621, 642

Provincetown Repertory Theater, 723, 729

Prusakova, Valya, 667, 668, 670

“Psychodynamics of Gambling, The” (Lindner), 165

“Public Notice on Waiting for Godot, A” (Mailer), 206

Publishers’ Publicity Association, 347

Publishers Weekly, 178

Pulitzer Prize, 351, 393, 397, 416, 417, 529, 540

Punk, 538

Purdy, Ted, 181, 192

Putnam’s, 190, 192, 243, 247, 251, 256, 325, 332, 365

Deer Park published by, 181

Puzo, Mario, 397

Pygmalion, 141, 223, 242

Pynchon, Thomas, 495, 610–11

Queen Elizabeth, RMS, 97

Quinn, Sally, 460

Quinn, Tom, 380, 715–16

Quite the Other Way (K. Jones), 518

Rabbit, Run (Updike), 326

Rader, Dotson, 175, 443, 448–49, 459, 461, 525, 555, 585, 596–97, 601, 624, 728

Radin, Marjorie “Osie,” 9, 14, 20, 94

Radziwill, Lee, 269

Radziwill, Prince, 269

Ragtime (Doctorow), 549, 629

Ragtime (film), 549, 550

NM in, 567

Rahv, Philip, 146, 147, 195, 235, 239, 252, 350

Rainbow, The (Lawrence), 488

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (Salinger), 326

Ramadan-Yom Kippur War, 478

Ramone, Joey, 539

Ramses II, pharaoh, 501–2, 554

in Ancient Evenings, 502, 579, 580, 582–83

Ramses IX, pharaoh, 452, 501–2, 580

Ramsey, JonBenét, 678

Random House, 59, 85, 179, 552, 613, 625, 644, 676, 677, 691, 695, 701, 706, 743, 757