Last of the Late Romantics

Authors

late Mailer scholarship, literary reassessment, postwar American literature, critical reception, canon formation, religion and politics

Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida

Andrew M. Gordon is Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Florida, author of An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP/Associated University Presses, 1980), as well as Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg, and, with Hernan Vera, Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness. He has written many essays on Jewish-American authors, including Bellow, Roth, Malamud, and Ozick. But his main claim to fame is that he is the only literary critic known to have smoked dope with Thomas Pynchon.