Remembering Barry Leeds

Authors

  • Marc S. Triplett Author

Keywords:

Barry Leeds, In memoriam, The Norman Mailer Society, tributes, friendship, The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer

Abstract

A panel at the 2015 Norman Mailer Society conference in Provincetown, moderated by Marc Triplett, remembers Barry Leeds, who died in 2015, Mailer scholar, Society vice-president, and author of The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. Speakers include Leeds’s sister Linda Field and daughter Ashley Leeds, David Light, Christopher Busa, Bonnie Culver, Robert Dowling, Robert J. Begiebing, J. Michael Lennon, Timothy Nolan, Ezra Cappell, Dave Thomas, and John Buffalo Mailer. Written tributes follow from Philip Bufithis, Bill Lowenburg, Maggie McKinley, Phillip Sipiora, and John Whalen-Bridge, recalling Leeds’s warmth, teaching, role in founding the Society, and the Barry Leeds Travel Fund established in his name.

Author Biography

  • Marc S. Triplett

    Marc S. Triplett is a lawyer with a criminal defense trial and appellate practice. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Delaware (BA), and received his JD from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, in 1977. Mr. Triplett is a lifetime member of the Norman Mailer Society and has maintained an interest in Norman Mailer’s works since first reading The Armies of the Night in 1968.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Tributes

How to Cite

Triplett, Marc S. “Remembering Barry Leeds”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 27–47, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/556.

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