Cluster Seeds and the Mailer Legacy

Authors

  • Donald L. Kaufmann University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, literary Naturalism, American literary lineage, authorial influence and legacy, canon formation, masculinity and literary identity

Abstract

Mailer is placed within the American literary tradition as a direct descendent of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Naturalism.

Author Biography

  • Donald L. Kaufmann, University of South Florida

    Donald L. Kaufmann is Professor of English at the University of South Florida, where he has taught American literature and creative writing since coming to USF from the University of Alaska in 1965. He is the author of Norman Mailer: The Countdown: The First Twenty Years (Southern Illinois UP, 1969), one of the first two books to appear on the work of Norman Mailer. He has also published essays on Mailer, Updike, Bellow, Hemingway, and other twentieth-century American writers. Prof. Kaufmann holds one of the largest Mailer collections of books, stories, essays, memorabilia, and ephemera.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

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

Section

Articles