Norman Mailer

An Expected Encounter in an Unexpected Place

Authors

  • Gail D. Sinclair Rollins College Author

Keywords:

Ernest Hemingway, literary performance, Lost Generation writers, literary correspondence, American modernist literature, author impersonation

Abstract

A professor recounts Norman Mailer’s role as Ernest Hemingway in a dramatic performance in reading personal correspondence, which included George Plimpton as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Norris Church Mailer as Zelda Fitzgerald.

Author Biography

  • Gail D. Sinclair, Rollins College

    Gail D. Sinclair is Executive Director of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College. Her most recent publications include co-editing Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment as well as essays in Hemingway’s Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice, and Teaching Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. She is currently on the board of directors for the Ernest Hemingway Society, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, and served as a director for the 2004 and the 2008 International Ernest Hemingway Conferences.

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Published

2026-03-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Literary Warriors

Section

Articles