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Purchased from the December 17, 2004, Christie's New York
auction " Playboy at 50: Selections from the
Archives," Playboy’s Norman Mailer files date from
1962 to 1979 and document three separate exchanges between Mailer and Playboy. |
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The first group of materials consists of one folder of correspondence between Mailer,
Hugh Hefner, and editorial director A. C. Spectorsky regarding Mailer’s "The Womanization of America" (Playboy, June 1962) and his stay at the Playboy mansion while covering the Sonny Liston- Floyd
Patterson fight on September 2, 1962. |
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The second group of materials includes two folders of typescript and photocopy
drafts, correspondence, and memos concerning "The Crazy
One" also titled "A Footnote to Death in the
Afternoon" (Playboy, October 1967). |
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The bulk of the materials, three folders and one galley file, document the three-part
serialization of Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song,
which appeared in the October, November, and December 1979 editions of Playboy. Present are internal memos and correspondence
between James Morgan, Arthur Kretchmer, Lawrence Dietz, Norman Mailer and other
Playboy staff, galley proofs, and typescript
drafts. |
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Materials are in good condition and are generally arranged in chronological order
within each folder. |
