Norman Mailer
In April 1965, Norman Mailer and his wife Beverly were in the UK to promote his book An American Dream and to visit friends Diana and Lionel Trilling in Oxford.
His biographer relates that, in a letter to Diana Trilling, Mailer wrote that the novel was either ‘an extraordinary piece which has anything really new in it’. Mailer was enjoying the argument over the novel’s merits ‘because no vice of mine could be greater than my desire to create a sensation and be forever talked about’.
