Norman Mailer Today

Authors

  • James Toback Author

Keywords:

literary criticism and reputation, existential heroism and dread, politics and spirituality, 1960s American culture, masculinity and power, violence and redemption

Author Biography

  • James Toback

    James Toback worked as a freelance journalist and later as a Creative Writing Instructor at City College of New York, after graduating from Harvard in 1966. An interview for Esquire with Jim Brown led to the publication in 1971 of Jim: The Author’s Self-Centered Memoir of the Great Jim Brown. He followed this with a series of successful screenplays, including The Gambler and Bugsy, as well as a string of writing and directing credits that include the 1978 film Fingers and the more recent films Two Girls and a Guy and Harvard Man. The 2009 documentary Tyson is Toback’s latest directorial venture.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

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

Section

Classic Interpretations