Norman Mailer

Playboy Magazine Heavyweight

Authors

  • Taylor Joy Mitchell University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, Ernest Hemingway, masculinity and media, literary culture and publishing, Cold War gender ideology, popular culture and literature

Abstract

An extensive and probing examination of the background and importance of Mailer’s appearances in Playboy magazine over several decades.

Author Biography

  • Taylor Joy Mitchell, University of South Florida

    Taylor Joy Mitchell recently completed her dissertation, “Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy,” and continues to study Cold War literature. She teaches contemporary literature and cultural studies at the University of South Florida as a Visiting Instructor.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Norris Mailer: A Life in Words

Section

Articles