Hemingway to Mailer

A Delayed Response to The Deer Park

Authors

  • J. Michael Lennon Wilkes University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.68910/5zr5c165

Keywords:

Ernest Hemingway, The Deer Park, literary influence, literary rivalry, postwar American literature, authorial correspondence

Abstract

Norman Mailer’s authorized biographer chronicles the exchange between Hemingway and Mailer that began with The Deer Park.

Author Biography

  • J. Michael Lennon, Wilkes University

    J. Michael Lennon is the author of the biography, Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013), editor of Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014), Critical Essays on Norman Mailer (1986), and editions of Mailer’s work published by the Library of America, Little Brown, Random House, and Taschen Books. He served as Mailer’s literary archivist, and is the founding president of the Norman Mailer Society. He teaches in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University.

The Mailer Review v.16: 20 Years of the Review

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Published

2026-11-04

Issue

Vol. 16 (2026): Special Edition: 20 Years of the Review

Section

II. Expanding the Archive: Intertexts, Sources, and the Recovery Project

How to Cite

Lennon, J. Michael. “Hemingway to Mailer: A Delayed Response to The Deer Park”. The Mailer Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Nov. 2026, pp. 37–43, https://doi.org/10.68910/5zr5c165.