Norman Mailer

She became a celebrity, and became acquainted with other celebrities, like Norman Mailer , James Baldwin , and Harry Belafonte .

It was a disappointment to OM when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis , was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...

It was controversial as well as popular. Its frank descriptions of sex, contraception and breast-feeding caused such a scandal that the novel was banned in Australia as an offence to public morals. Norman Mailer ,...

Although she was against censorship, RW objected to literature with no redeeming moral value. She left the Festival after four days, disgusted with its exaltation of homosexuality of the vulgarest sort, pornography, and drug-taking...

Part one is the story of the publishing houses that DA worked with. She begins by explaining that business figures (which someone had mentioned as the key to an interesting book about publishing) would not...

The title alludes to the key study by Sandra M. Gilbert , The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, 1979. The introduction pays tribute to the women Greer...