Michael Lennon - Norman Mailer - a double life

NM as member of, 38–39, 42

Silent Spring (Carson), 317

Silverman, Beatrice “Bea” (NM’s first wife), 23, 43, 52, 76, 86, 93–94, 112, 119

breakup and divorce of NM and, 130, 133–34

failing marriage of NM and, 118–19, 125, 126

as feminist, 44, 130

first meeting of NM’s family and, 50, 55

frank speech of, 109–10

marriage of NM and, 1, 85–86, 93–95, 97, 98, 114, 118

marriage of Steve Sánchez and, 146, 151

musical interests of, 44–45, 127

1947–48 European trip of, 1–5, 95, 97, 98–108

NM’s post-breakup letters to, 148, 154, 224

NM’s premarital relationship with, 43–44, 48, 49–50, 54, 55, 56–57, 58

NM’s wartime correspondence with, 59–60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70–71, 72–76, 77–78, 80–81, 82, 83–84, 85, 86

pregnancy of, 118–19, 120

psychiatric career of, 130

religious wedding of NM and, 59

secret wedding of NM and, 58

unpublished novels by, 74, 94, 103, 127

in WAVES, 60, 74

Silverman, Jenny, 49–50, 58, 59

Silverman-Ott, Phyllis, 86, 218

Silvers, Robert, 545, 552, 553, 556, 561–62, 573, 619

Simenon, George, 79

Simon, John, 294, 397, 468

Harlot’s Ghost reviewed by, 649–50

NM’s antipathy toward, 649–50

Simon & Schuster, 646

Simpson, O. J., 678, 712

trial of, 691, 693, 712

Sinatra, Frank, 273, 434, 629

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 260, 361, 602

Singh, Khushwant, 314

Sinkler, Rebecca, 649–50

Sisterhood Is Powerful (anthology), 436

60 Minutes, 464, 465, 466, 467–68

Skellings, Edmund, 347, 352–53

Slovoda, Sam (char.), 145–46, 340

Smack Goddess (Stratton), 628

Smith, Francis X., 419

Smith, June Edith, 496, 497, 498

Smith, Lillian, 79

Smith, Liz, 512, 513, 608, 680

Smith, Perry, 477, 531, 534

Smith, Red, 322

Smith, Tamera, 533

Smith, W. Eugene, 511

Snyder, Richard, 606–7

Sobhraj, Charles, 529

Soho News, 557

Solanas, Valerie, 436–37

Solomon, Barbara Probst, 106, 118, 390, 486, 561–62, 686

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 557

Some Came Running (Jones), 157, 213, 229, 613

Some Honorable Men (Mailer), 487

Song of Myself (Whitman), 182

Sontag, Susan, 147, 260, 356, 364, 442, 513, 602, 603, 609, 637, 653, 695

Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 47

Southern, Terry, 348

South Pacific, 51–52

Souvarine, Boris, 113

Soviet Union, 93

show trials in, 112–13

Spanish Civil War, 100

Spark, Muriel, 313

Spender, Stephen, 276–77, 313

Spengler, Oswald, 63–64, 68, 69, 76, 117

Spiegel, Sam, 513

Spinks, Michael, 631

Spinoza, Baruch, 9

Spock, Benjamin, 387

Spooky Art, The: Some Thoughts on Writing (Mailer), 721, 725, 726–27

Stafford, Jean, 249

Stag, 228

Staley, Tom, 737

Stalin, Joseph, 113, 115, 295, 313

Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism (Souvarine), 113

Stanley (char.), 87

Starger, Martin, 620

“Statement of Aims by the Playwright, A” (Mailer), 372–73

Steiger, Rod, 459

Stein, Gertrude, 611

Stein, Jean, 517, 525, 536

Stein, Monte, 43

Steinbeck, John, 27, 28, 30, 32, 131

Steinberg, Gayfryd, 607

Steinberg, Saul, 607

Steinem, Gloria, 410, 413–14, 449, 459, 462, 594

Stendhal, 102, 119, 395–96, 543

“Steps of the Pentagon, The” (Mailer), 393

see also Armies of the Night, The

Stern, Bert, 464, 615

Stern, Richard G., 237–39, 362, 517

Sterne, Laurence, 360

Stevens, Carol (NM’s fifth wife), 340, 360, 369, 401, 404, 431, 523, 763

Fanny and, 425, 475–76

NM’s breakup with, 490–91, 494, 499

NM’s infidelities and, 471–72, 484

NM’s long-term relationship with, 425, 428, 429–30, 432, 445–46, 451, 453, 454, 456, 459, 470, 471–72, 484, 485, 486

NM’s one-day marriage to, 524

NM’s post-breakup relationship with, 491, 595, 623, 662–63

Norris’s friendship with, 500, 758

pregnancy of, 425, 429, 430, 441

singing career of, 340, 369, 428, 464–65, 475–76, 485–86

Stockbridge fight of NM and, 476

Stevens, George, 121

Stevenson, Adlai, 207, 265

Sting Like a Bee (Torres), 445, 447, 448

Stone, Oliver, 653–54

Stone, Robert, 637

Stop Smiling, 736

Story, 38, 39–40, 42, 48

Story of Civilization, The (Durant), 446

Story Press, 39

Strachey, Lytton, 68

Strange Fruit (Smith), 79

Strasberg, Lee, 226

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, 631

Stratton, Richard, 153, 467, 549, 557, 573, 737

drug smuggling trial of, 571, 572

NM’s letters to, 570–71, 622, 628, 629

NM’s Rolling Stone interview by, 476–77, 605

Strawhead (Mailer; play), 537, 569, 614

Kate as Monroe in, 614–15, 616

Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 471

Street Time (TV pilot), 737

Streisand, Barbra, 547

Stuart, Lyle, 189, 197

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 400, 408, 412, 453

Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Ellis), 29

Studs Lonigan (Farrell), 27–28

Styron, Rose, 211, 222, 259, 513, 752

Styron, William, 131, 142, 163, 172, 179, 195, 211, 213, 222, 248, 260, 296, 308, 326, 349, 359, 377, 440, 513, 566, 602, 603, 619, 706

Adele patronized by, 230, 231–32

Aldridge in break with, 259

death of, 752

Jones’s friendship with, 234

NM on duplicity of, 259

NM’s “Evaluations” as viewed by, 250, 258

NM’s feud with, 229, 233, 234, 536

NM’s letters to, 149–50, 155–56, 157, 159, 161, 175

NM’s relationship with, 147–48, 149–50, 213, 222, 223, 566

NM’s threatening letters to, 230–31

suicide, 297–300, 464, 503

Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, Sr. “Punch,” 610, 649

Sunlight Oil Corporation, 19, 47

“Superman Comes to the Supermarket” (Mailer), 261, 270–72, 274–75, 279, 320, 408

Susskind, David, 244, 337, 511, 533

Swados, Harvey, 134

Swenson, May, 294

Sylvia (NM’s cousin), 14

Take Me to the River (Alson), 748

Talese, Gay, 213, 308, 319, 352, 458, 594, 603, 607, 609, 637, 653

Talese, Nan, 675–76

Tales of Hasidim (Buber), 206–7

Talmud, 527–28

Tartikoff, Brandon, 567

Tate, Sharon, 447

Tateyama Naval Airdrome, Honshu, 77, 78, 79

Taylor, Robert, 685

Team of Rivals (Goodwin), 735

technology, NM’s distrust of, 77, 97, 367–68, 398, 422, 427, 436, 444, 551, 576

Tempels, Placide, 479

Ten Commandments, The (film), 502

Tenement Kid, The (Edd), 275

“Ten Thousand Words a Minute” (Mailer), 320, 326, 328

Teppis, Herman (char.), 160, 171, 372

Terkel, Studs, 550

Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (film), 96

Tex (char.), 365, 378–79

Texas, University of, Ransom Center of, NM’s papers purchased by, 737–38

That Summer in Paris (Callaghan), 703

Thaw, Harry K., 549

Thin Red Line, The (Jones), 326

This Is My Beloved (Benton, ed.), 68

Thomas, Clara Fargo, 429

Thomas, Sandy Charlebois, 366, 392

Thomases, Martha, 520–21, 538

Thompson, Hunter, 500–501, 573

Thompson, Thomas, 529

Thorndike, Lynn, 576

Thornhill, Arthur H., 504

Thurmond, Strom, 112

Tibo (poodle), 194, 211, 266, 280, 317, 329, 576

Ticket to the Circus, A (Norris Mailer), 124, 485, 494, 500, 507, 564, 626, 723